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Ingres
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Most of the pictures executed after he had ceased to be an inmate of the Villa Medici, says the Vicomte Henri Delaborde, even those which are now the glory of public or private collections, remained in his studio at Rome vainly awaiting a purchaser. If by chance some stranger passing through the Eternal City came and bought one of those despised canvases, the bargain, concluded by the expenditure of some few hundred francs, was at the actual moment as unprofitable to the seller as it was in the future to prove advantageous to the other party witness that Great Odalisque, judged in 1820 to be almost valueless, and now become so famous since the day when it was sold for a price sixty times greater than the terms of its first acquisition - about 1000 francs. When Ingres sent his works to the Paris exhibitions the reception usually accorded to them was not of a nature to compensate him for the indifference or injustice to which he was subject in Rome. Professional connoisseurs, the official counsellors of public opinion, vied with one another as to who could pour most open ridicule, sometimes on the 'unfortunate audacities, ' sometimes on the 'deplorable mania for archaism, ' of an artist who wanted to set back art for several centuries and resuscitate the style of john of Bruges.
Dominique Ingres continued all the while to hope for more justice from his compatriots; he was fond of quoting Beethoven, who when writing of the want of comprehension shown by his contemporaries I am not anxious as to the fate of my compositions, because I know that in my art God is nearer to me than to other men.
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Most of the pictures executed after he had ceased to be an inmate of the Villa Medici, says the Vicomte Henri Delaborde, even those which are now the glory of public or private collections, remained in his studio at Rome vainly awaiting a purchaser. If by chance some stranger passing through the Eternal City came and bought one of those despised canvases, the bargain, concluded by the expenditure of some few hundred francs, was at the actual moment as unprofitable to the seller as it was in the future to prove advantageous to the other party witness that Great Odalisque, judged in 1820 to be almost valueless, and now become so famous since the day when it was sold for a price sixty times greater than the terms of its first acquisition - about 1000 francs. When Ingres sent his works to the Paris exhibitions the reception usually accorded to them was not of a nature to compensate him for the indifference or injustice to which he was subject in Rome. Professional connoisseurs, the official counsellors of public opinion, vied with one another as to who could pour most open ridicule, sometimes on the 'unfortunate audacities, ' sometimes on the 'deplorable mania for archaism, ' of an artist who wanted to set back art for several centuries and resuscitate the style of john of Bruges.
Dominique Ingres continued all the while to hope for more justice from his compatriots; he was fond of quoting Beethoven, who when writing of the want of comprehension shown by his contemporaries I am not anxious as to the fate of my compositions, because I know that in my art God is nearer to me than to other men.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
146 pages, Paperback
Published October 6, 2018
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
67 books1 followerJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Picasso, Matisse and other modernists.
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