Hommage à Ingres © 2009 Alan Osler
Oil on canvas 46cm x 36cm (18in x 15in)
Ingres held that drawing was the basis of painting, yet he 'drew' bodies that aren't anatomically accurate. Take his three-quarter length portrait of the Countess of Haussonville (whose head I've attempted here): the right arm is an impossible length. Another arm, again a right one, that of his 'Odalisque,' appears too long, and rather sausage-like -- as though his interest lay elsewhere and he decided to leave this to an apprentice. Or is there some other explanation?
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