Volume 46, Number 9 · May 20, 1999
The Zincsmith of Genius
By James Fenton
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch 1999; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 23-August 22, 1999; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 5, 1999-January 2, 2000.
an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, January 27-April 25, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Gary Tinterow, by Philip Conisbee
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 596 pp., $50.00 (paper)
Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women
by Aileen Ribeiro
Yale University Press, 259 pp., $55.00
Ingres
by Georges Vigne
Abbeville, 352 pp., $95.00
On the northeast side of the Louvre, on the site of what later became the Marengo Wing, the students of Jacques-Louis David had their lodgings and their atelier. In 1797, when the young Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres came up to Paris to study under the master, he would have found an extremely sordid and gloomy complex of rooms, to enter which one had to pass a row of immense sinks that served as an open latrine. The air was putrid and still. According to a memoir by E.J. Delécluze, Ingres's fellow student, it took nothing less than the iron will and power of Napoleon to cleanse these latter-day Augean stables and to make the Louvre a fitting monument for the nation.[1]
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