Detail of Louis-François Bertin According to legend, Ingres was unable to find a pose for Bertin until the day he saw the newspaperman sitting in just this position in his garden (or, according to a different source, at a soiree). Ingres generally disliked painting hands, but these two surely rank as among the most expressive in the history of art.
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