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Paintings from 19th century France, from Neoclassic to Academic to Barbizon. Impressionism is not covered here.
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Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Repose (1867)
Jules Breton: Repose
This drawing dates from perhaps the most formally successful decade of Breton's career. The artist represents a young woman lost in dreamy contemplation as she pauses for rest during the harvest. Her fellow harvesters continue to work behind her, and there are haystacks visible in the distance. The contrast is notable between the highly finished manner of the resting woman and the far sketchier treatment of the landscape background and secondary figures. The resting woman is characteristic of Breton's classicizing treatment of form in the 1860s, but it may also reflect an awareness of more recent sources. [The Walters Art Museum]
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Ingres - Drawings (1859)
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Madame Charles Gounod, nee Anna Zimmermann
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Madame Charles Simart, nee Amelie Baltard
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Drawings (1856)
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Mademoiselle Cecile Panckoucke
Théodore Chassériau: Portrait of Princess Marie Cantacuzene
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Portrait of Hippolyte Flandrin (1855)
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Portrait of Hippolyte Flandrin
Flandrin (1809-1864) was a fellow painter. At bottom right it says "Ingres to his friend and great artist Hippolyte Flandrin".
Friday, January 16, 2015
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Portrait of the Comtesse Charles d'Agoult (1849)
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Portrait of the Comtesse Charles d'Agoult,
born Marie de Flavigny, and Her Daughter Claire d'Agoult
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Portrait of Madame Frederic Reiset and Her Daughter (1844)
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Portrait of Madame Frederic Reiset, born Augustine Modeste Hortense Reiset, and Her Daughter Therese Hortense Marie
Sunday, July 20, 2014
The Wife of Admiral Duperré and Her Daughters (1841)
Théodore Chassériau: Portrait of the Wife of Admiral Duperré and Her Daughters
Wikipedia has an article about the admiral; his wife and daughters are not mentioned.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Monday, December 23, 2013
Portrait of Firmin Didot (1823)
Anne-Louis Girodet: Portrait of Firmin Didot
One of Girodet's last works (he died the following year) was this delightful drawing of his friend Firmin Didot, a prominent typographer who invented the word "stereotype," which in its original sense didn't refer to making broad-brush judgments about a group of people but rather to how pages are set up for printing.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Drawn Portraits (1818)
Some more portraits by Ingres.

Portrait of the Kaunitz Sisters

Portrait of the Stamaty Family
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Portrait of Otto Magnus von Stackelberg and Jackob Linckh (1817)
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres:
Portrait of Otto Magnus von Stackelberg and Jakob Linckh
Stackelberg and Linckh were both archaeologists.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Drawings by Ingres (1816)
In addition to the numerous paintings, Ingres's output included dozens of skilled drawings, most of which are portraits. Here are two of these.
Madame John Mackie, née Dorothea Sophia de Champs
Portrait of Joseph Woodhead and His Wife, born Harriet Comber,
and Her Brother, Henry George Wandesford Comber
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