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Quoted and translated in Tinterow, Conisbee et al. 1999, p. 70. Ingres' stylistic eclecticism represented a new tendency in art.

Tinterow, Conisbee et al. 1999, p. 106. Art collectors preferred "light-hearted mythologies, recognizable scenes of everyday life, landscapes, still lifes, or likenesses of men and women of their own class.

Tinterow, Conisbee et al. 1999, p. 111. Nevertheless, the portrait drawings he produced in such profusion during this period are of outstanding quality, and rank today among his most admired works.

Tinterow, Conisbee et al. 1999, p. 27. As art historian Marjorie Cohn has written: "At the time, art history as a scholarly enquiry was brand-new.

Tinterow, Conisbee et al. 1999, p. 512. Their consistently high quality belies Ingres's often-stated complaint that the demands of portraiture robbed him of time he could have spent painting historical subjects.