Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Picasso Ingres: Face to Face review – portraiture at its most radical
This first-time pairing of Picasso’s Woman With a Book and its inspiration, Ingres’s celebrated Madame Moitessier, underlines the uniqueness of each artist
2022 culture preview
Van Gogh’s self-portraits and colossal venues: 2022’s best art and architectureIt’s Happy New Ear for the impressionist, Manchester and Folkestone’s shiny new mega-venues open and Stonehenge gets the blockbuster treatment
The Danish Collector review – reflections of an excellent eye
The Exhibition on Screen series examines the modern French paintings collected by Danish businessman Wilhelm Hansen
Monochrome review – white stripes, shocking yellow and 500 shades of grey
This peculiar exhibition shirks black-and-white certainties in examining monochromatic art and painting, but why is there no room for Yves Klein, Robert Ryman or Chinese mastery?
Frick Collection masterpieces on show at the Mauritshuis in The Hague
Ingres’s Comtesse d’Haussonville one of more than 30 pieces lent to the Mauritshuis for unprecedented exhibition
Top 10s in art
The top 10 female nudes in artJonathan Jones: From the ravishing Venus of Urbino, past Ingres's sensual Odalisque, to the feminist riposte of the Guerrilla Girls, the female nude has inspired, enraptured and enraged
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review
Alex Danchev is dazzled by Roberto Calasso's meditations on Baudelaire
Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review
Kiki de Montparnasse is celebrated in a quirky graphic biography
Jonathan Jones on art
Art criticism starts with love and hateJonathan Jones: Overanalysing art, as opposed to intuitively rating it, is fraught with peril
Portrait of the week
Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière, Ingres (1805)His obviously intense visual relationship with his subject and his contentment to look, with a clinical waxy fetishism, at Mademoiselle Rivière's full lips, bared neck, long gloves and spectacularly serpentine boa, lend this picture drama.
Jones on art
Ingres to Matisse
Look back in Ingres
Richard Shone is taken to a troubled era in French art by Anita Brookner in Romanticism and Its Discontents
So much pain for the vain
The important thing to remember about Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is how important he was. 'It is very flattering to see tears flow in front of my works, and by those with good and refined sensibilities. 'You are the first artist today!' they tell me. And at my feet I see the envious ones, wicked and ridiculous,' he said. Delacroix, neither wicked nor ridiculous, complained that Ingres's art was 'the complete expression of an incomplete intelligence'.
Hot art shows
Portraits By Ingres
Don't let Napoleon's odd haircut or the overcooked classicism put you off Ingres the colourist, draughtsman and portraitist. National Gallery. London, from tomorrow till April 25.
Pictures reveal Ingres in his artistic pomp
The queue outside the Royal Academy in London snaked for a mile along Piccadilly yesterday as the lucky few permitted an early glimpse of Monet in the 20th Century, its blockbuster exhibition which opens on Saturday, waited for two hours or more.
Sexless, stupid, lusty genius
Georges Vigne walks through the streets of Montauban, deep in conversation with his little dog and his beloved. Sometimes they do a little dance, sometimes they sing songs to keep their spirits up.
