Synopses & Reviews
One of the great figures of 19th-century French painting, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1876) is also, in the words of Richard Martin, "a perfect example of an artist who has wielded opulent costume to create paintings of rich, deep characterization."
Ingres' masterful portraits of his contemporaries, painted over six decades, are admired for their psychological acuity. The artist's passion for color and his sensuous evocation of fabrics open a window on the evolving fashion of the times. It is that brilliant flourish of fashion in Ingres' art that is the subject of this lushly illustrated book, which accompanies an exhibition at The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is held in concert with the major international exhibition, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, on view at the same time at the Metropolitan.