Ingres

A survey of the life and works of one of the most distinguished figures in French art, creator of "Grande Odalisque," the "Portrait of Caroline Riviere" and the "Turkish Bath," among others. Ingres was a multifaceted and sometimes contradictory artistic personality: a marvelous draftsman, passionately in love with nature; an infallible virtuoso of the portrait; a creator of limpid, monumental nudes; the inventor of delicious deformations; a resolute history painter' a rigid doctrinaire; an eclectic who could make capital out of the most varied traditions. Notes, Chronology, Bibliography, Photo Credits. Color illus. 255p.