Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry
Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry is an 1842 oil-on-canvas allegorical portrait of
History
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The work took a long time to produce. Eighteen preparatory drawings are known to exist. It was based on an 1833 portrait of Cherubini by Ingres, of which a pre-1841 copy survives in the Cincinnati Art Museum.[4] To create Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry, Ingres retrieved the 1833 portrait, cut the head of Cherubini from it, and had it sewn onto a larger canvas.[5] The muse was probably painted by Lehmann – the craquelure which only affects that figure are linked to an overuse of oil and use of bitumen, which seems to indicate an artist other than Ingres, who did not use that medium.[4][6]
See also
Bibliography
- (in French) Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Paris, Fernand Nathan, 1980, 192 p. (ISBN 2-09-284557-8)
- Gary Tinterow (ed.) and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres : image of an epoch (exhibition catalogue), New-York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999 (ISBN 0-87099-890-0, OCLC 40135348.
References
- ^ (in French) "Base Joconde entry".
- ^ (in French) Vincent Pomarède (ed.) et al., Ingres : 1780-1867 (catalogue d'exposition), Paris, Gallimard, 2006, 406 p. (ISBN 2-07-011843-6), page 316
- ^ (in French) "Catalogue entry".
- ^ a b (in French) Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca (translated from Italian), Tout l'œuvre peint de Ingres, Paris, Flammarion, 1984, 130 p. (ISBN 2-08-010240-0), page 108
- ^ Tinterow and Conisbee, 1999, p. 380.
- ^ (in French) "Histoire image entry".
