Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1849 · Graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with touches of yellow watercolor, on off-white wove paper, lined to secondary wove paper
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About this picture
Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult is a public-domain drawing by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, dated 1849. Graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with touches of yellow watercolor, on off-white wove paper, lined to secondary wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult” (1849) is drawn first. Ingres cared more about the precision of the line than about a loose patch of paint.
About the artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) was a French painter who defended precise line. His portraits and odalisques are tightly drawn, even when the anatomy is quietly adjusted.
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