Armand Bertin 1842 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French Armand Bertin, son of the powerful press baron Louis-François Bertin, whom Ingres immortalized in his famous portrait of 1832 (at the Louvre), possesses the same imposing girth as his father but a much gentler demeanor. Appearing caught in conversation, he holds a top hat (the perspective of which looks oddly distorted) in one hand and a walking cane in the other. The drawing is dedicated to the sitter’s wife, whose companion portrait Ingres also drew ().. Armand Bertin. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–186
Armand Bertin 1842 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French Armand Bertin, son of the powerful press baron Louis-François Bertin, whom Ingres immortalized in his famous portrait of 1832 (at the Louvre), possesses the same imposing girth as his father but a much gentler demeanor. Appearing caught in conversation, he holds a top hat (the perspective of which looks oddly distorted) in one hand and a walking cane in the other. The drawing is dedicated to the sitter’s wife, whose companion portrait Ingres also drew ().. Armand Bertin. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris). 1842. Graphite on wove paper. Drawings
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