Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts

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

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

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Drawn Portraits (1836)

These are by Ingres.

 Portrait of Alexis Rene Le Go
  
Self-Portrait

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

Drawn portraits (1819)

Two more by Ingres.

 Portrait of Andre Benoit Barreau, called Taurel
  
The Alexandre Lethiere Family

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