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Ingres Portrait Drawings: 44 Plates (Dover Art Library)

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If you have the slightest interest in portraiture and/or classical art, this inexpensive book , along with others in the Dover art Library series, is a must for your collection. Ingres is arguably one of the greatest portraitist ever and the reproductions in this book are a testament to that. Unlike the works of many of his contemporaries , "Romanticists", Ingres was a Classicist in the strictest sense of the word, as evident in these drawings and especially in his paintings. Although i am more an admirer of the style of such painters as Sargent, whose looser approach is the anthisesis of Ingres' careful, detailed, deliberate, yet graceful style, i still enjoyed studying these masterpieces in this book of drawings.

Nice series of books, these Old Master Portrait Drawings from Dover Art Library. Good material if you want to study portrait drawing. Good reproductions of the drawings. No text, only a short introduction from the publisher and titles with the drawings. The drawings say it all.

it's a dover book with 44 or so so-so reproductions of his drawings (that appear in other nicer books). he did like what, 400 of these pencil portraits? ingres is the portrait champ for sure but every other dover book (sargent, rubens) is $6.95. the guy pricing this thing at over $200 should be banned. what gives, amazon? i'm giving three stars cuz i've seen it and it's A GREAT BOOK AT $6.95.