"Portraits
by Ingres: Image of an Epoch" was a major international loan exhibition held at
the Metropolitan Museum from October 5, 1999, through January 2, 2000. It was
the largest exhibition of portraits by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres ever presented outside France. The forty paintings and ninety-two drawings
on view offered a virtual Who's Who of the ruling elite in France—the
aristocracy of birth, beauty, politics, wealth, and intellect. This feature presents
sixteen portraits by Ingres, together with illuminating details of each portrait
and related works from the exhibition and the Metropolitan's permanent collection.
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