Friday, July 5, 2013

Half Figure of a Bather (1807)

Jean-August-Dominique Ingres: Half Figure of a Bather

Ingres, the portraitist par excellence, turned his attention to the nude form with a series of paintings of bathers. This is one of the earliest - we'll see more of them in due course. But this one, though differing in some respects, shares common features with the other "Bathers" - most particularly, the bather facing away from the viewer. Modesty? or coyness?

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