May 23, 2017
PRINCESSE DE BROGLIE 1851-53 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Robert Lehman Collection, 1975, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This surely has to be one of the most beautiful paintings of a blue satin dress conceivable? The cool blue colour and the texture of the dress are such that you feel you could reach out and touch it, or if the sitter were to move, you would hear it rustle.
This was Ingres’s last commission painted towards the end of his life and is a masterpiece of neo-classicism.
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