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Acknowledgements

Aileen Ribeiro

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Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres’s Images of Women

Acknowledgements

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Aileen Ribeiro

PublisherYale University Press

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Acknowledgements

A book of this kind could not have been contemplated without the opportunity to study as many of Ingres’s images of women—portraits, bathers, odalisques—as possible, face to face. I am most grateful to the British Academy for their award of a research grant which enabled me to look at Ingres’s work in France, North America and The Netherlands. I have managed to see the majority of the works by Ingres illustrated in this book, and I owe thanks to the many curators, art dealers and private owners who facilitated my research and supplied me with photographs. Particular thanks are due to the following: in France, the Musée Ingres in Montauban, the Musée Bonnat in Bayonne, and the Cabinet des Dessins of the Louvre; in The Netherlands, the Rijksprentenkabinet of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam; in the United States, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and, in New York, the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I would like to record my thanks to the following in London: the National Gallery, the printrooms of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Rothschild Archive. Information and access to nineteenth-century women’s clothing and accessories came from a number of helpful institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Textiles and Dress, and the Indian Section), the Museum of London, the Fashion Research Centre in Bath, the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Department of Costume and Textiles), and the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For sharing their expertise I would like to thank Tina Levey, who identified some of the lace in Ingres’s female portraits, and to Diana Scarisbrick, who discussed with me the jewellery worn by Ingres’s sitters. A profitable afternoon was spent at the Fan Museum in Greenwich where Hélène Alexander showed me the kind of fans that Ingres depicts in his work. At the Courtauld Institute I would like to thank, once again, the helpful staff of our libraries, particularly of the Witt Library. Thanks are due also to the Photographic Survey of Private Collections and the Photographic Department of the Courtauld Institute. At Yale University Press I am indebted to the meticulous copy-editing of Celia Jones, and to the enthusiasm, wise advice, design skills and sheer hard work of my editor, Gillian Malpass.

Unless otherwise indicated, the translations from the French in the text and in the notes are the author’s.

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BOOKIngres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres’s Images of Women

Aileen Ribeiro

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23123

For more than half of the nineteenth century, French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) depicted the rapidly changing appearance of the fashionable woman with meticulous attention to detail and with rare perception and empathy. Working in a period that witnessed the development of a consumer society and the beginnings of couture, Ingres charted in his portraits how clothes were worn and what part they played in definitions of identity and status. This book explores for the first time the ways in which clothing, accessories, and fabrics define and display women in Ingres’s portraits. With more than 150 illustrations that include the artist’s portraits, fashion plates, portraits by contemporaries, and surviving items of costume, the book illuminates Ingres’s work and its relation to the social and artistic discourse of his time.

Eminent dress historian Aileen Ribeiro analyzes in detail Ingres’s attitudes, his skill in depicting clothing, and how he portrays the real and idealized woman in his paintings and drawings of the fashionable mainstream—the grandes dames of elite society, the newly opulent bourgeoisie, English visitors to Italy, and family and friends. Ribeiro also devotes a section of the book to the part played by textiles and accessories in Ingres’s images of bathers and odalisques.

Some editorial changes have been made by the author to this electronic version.

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Author

Aileen Ribeiro

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date March 1999 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300079272

EISBN 9780300272369

Illustrations 173

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