Norton Simon Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
411 West Colorado Blvd
626-449-6840
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Comtesse d’Haussonville (detail), dated 1845, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Frick Collection, New York, Photo: Richard di Liberto
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Saturday Nov 14, 2009
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Directions: Located on the corner of Orange Grove and Colorado at the intersection of the 210 and 134 freeways
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Aileen Ribeiro, The Oak Foundation Professor in the History of Dress, Courtauld Institute of Art, examines the often-complex views Ingres had with regard to fashion during his long career; though he had a traditional bias toward history painting and allegory, he nevertheless became one of the supreme artists of clothing during the rise of haute couture and the cult of the designer in mid-19th-century Paris. Ribeiro presents images of female fashion, ranging from the delicate neoclassical styles in vogue during Ingres’s early career to the conspicuous consumption and lavish display of the middle decades of the 19th century. In both his portrait drawings and his paintings, Ingres produced a sense of heightened reality in his depictions of fashion, what the poet and critic Baudelaire described as the “indivisible unity…[between] the woman and her dress.”
Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Early arrival recommended.
