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Eye Candy for Today, Ingres group portrait graphite drawing

The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; graphite, 12 x 9 ” (30 x 22 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, which has both a downloadable and zoomable version of the file.

Here we have another of French painter Ingres’ delicate graphite drawings, in which he has given the faces the attention due portraits, and sketched the figures lightly, giving them an almost ephemeral look.

Along with his painting skills, Ingres was known for these wonderful pencil portraits.

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The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine), MetMuseum

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