The peculiar realism of Ingres International Herald Tribune | April 1, 2006| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Michael Kimmelman
International Herald Tribune
04-01-2006
Outside the first gallery of the Ingres show here at the Louvre, his gigantic painting of Jupiter and Thetis from a distance might almost be mistaken for a copy of itself the colors are so lurid and the surface is so smooth. No matter how familiar Ingres is, like all great artists he suddenly looks unfamiliar whenever you see him.The proportions in the picture are wrong, as they always are with him, but in the end they make their own peculiar right. Ingres loved nudes but hated anatomy, as the poet James Fenton once put it. The ...

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