Search results for: “ingres drawing”
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Mme Lethiere
Madame Guillaume Guillon Lethière, née Marie-Joseph-Honorée Vanzenne, and her son Lucien Lethière, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; graphite on paper; roughly 9 x 7″ (24 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. I’m a great admirer of Ingres’ sensitive pencil portrait drawings. This one is a bit unusual, more finished…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne
Portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Graphite pencil on paper, roughly 17×12 inches (43×29 cm). Original is in the Morgan Library and Museum. Here is another of Ingres’s wonderful pencil portraits, with his trademark combination of exacting portraiture, and loose, almost casual rendering of the figure. The Morgan Library’s page offers both a zoomable and…
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Adolph Menzel: Drawings and Paintings
Though I had seen a few reproductions of his work in books, I first really took notice of German artist Adolph Menzel quite a few years ago, when I encountered some of his original drawings in shows of 19th century master drawings at the Morgan Library in New York and the National Gallery in D.C.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait
Portrait of a Seated Lady, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres In the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Graphite drawings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Today, March 30, is — we are told — “National Pencil Day“, marking the advent of a patent on the pencil with an attached eraser. I’ll put aside the fact that this hardly represents the most significant event in the history of the pencil, and the inaccuracy of the linked WN article about Lipman creating…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait
Portrait of Mme Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, née Sophie Leroy, graphite drawing by Jean-Aguste-Dominique Ingres. I love how casual the rest of the drawing seems compared to the carefully rendered face. From the Morgan Library and Museum. More here. Use the controls under the image for Zoom and Full Screen.