Detail of Louis-François Bertin
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August 30, 1897, a ceramist named Ovide Scribe wrote to the curator of the Musée
Ingres in Montauban: "When you go to see the portrait of M. Bertin at the Louvre,
please be sure to notice the point of light on the arm of the chair. You can see
a window with its curtains in it. The chair was painted by Duthanofer, a well-known
decorator at the time. The master made him do that point of light over five or
six times, never finding it quite detailed enough in its rendering of the curtains." | |
