Portrait of Monsieur Bertin
work by Ingres
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discussed in biography
- In Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Maturity
In 1832 he produced the Portrait of Monsieur Bertin, a pictorial paean to the tenacity of the newly empowered middle class. Ingres’s masterful characterization of his pugnacious sitter, along with the portrait’s mesmerizing realism, earned him popular as well as critical accolades at the 1833 Salon.
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