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“… les plus vieux auraient pu se dire qu’au cours de leur vie ils avaient vu, … la distance infranchissable entre ce qu’ils jugeaient un chef-d’oeuvre d’Ingres et ce qu’ils croyaient devoir rester à jamais une horreur (par exemple l’Olympia de Manet) diminuer jusqu’à ce que les deux toiles eussent l’air jumelles.” (Le côté de Guermantes, 407) “... the older among them might have reminded themselves that in the course of their lives they had gradually seen, ... the unbridgeable gulf between what they considered a masterpiece by Ingres and what they had supposed must for ever remain a “horror” (Manet’s Olympia, for example) shrink until the two canvases seemed like twins.” (The Guermantes Way, 575) |
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780 - 1867)
Odalisque with a Slave, 1839-1840 Oil on canvas, 72.1 x 100.3 cm (28 3/8 x 39 1/2 in.) Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.251 |
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