This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... power. As a rival of David he surpassed the latter in his portrait-painting, for he knew how to flatter effectively while remaining faithful to truth, how to add charm to beauty, and polish and chic to dignity. But Ingres was the painter par excellence of the men and women of his age, and the portraits of three ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... power. As a rival of David he surpassed the latter in his portrait-painting, for he knew how to flatter effectively while remaining faithful to truth, how to add charm to beauty, and polish and chic to dignity. But Ingres was the painter par excellence of the men and women of his age, and the portraits of three generations have been preserved to us by him. In his portrait of the aged Bertin, the editor of the Journal des Debats, we have a creation that embodies the whole age in which he lived. This acute-looking old gentleman is the representative of the tiers-etat--self-sufficient, and almost painfully aware of the importance of the class to which he belongs. His appearance and attitude cry aloud, "L'e'tat, c'est moi"--the present and the future are mine; self-assurance exudes from every pore. However much Ingres may fail in this respect in his other pictures, in his portraits he makes nature herself speak; true to life, he has shown the middle-classes as they lived and moved--the men stubborn and tenacious, the women capable and correct. And this is even truer of his drawings than his paintings, the cold hard colouring of the latter detracting from their effect. In his crayon studies he worked direct from nature, and they are intimately lifelike, something of the soul and mind of his sitters being given by him as well as the exact portrayal of their outward appearance. There is a sincerity, an interpretation of the sacredness, love, and seriousness of home life in his family groups that produces a religious impression. Romantic art in Germany, influenced by the older Diisseldorf school, was marked by an emotional sentimentality English caricature About 1830) A Hint To The Ladies which Lessing, Sohn, Bendemann, and others brought into fashion by...
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