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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait

Portrait of a Seated Lady, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, pencil portrait drawing
Portrait of a Seated Lady, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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2 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait”

  1. This posted in response to all of those “photo-real” pencil drawings that elicit oohs and aahs throughout cyberspace. Geeking out here for a moment; the side of her nose makes me want to weep.

    1. Thank, Bill.

      What always gets me about these Ingres pencil portraits is a wonderful kind of reality-shift — from responding to the face a person one second, and the next being aware that “it’s all lines on paper, folks!” (to paraphrase Robert Crumb).