Ingres Master Study

This is an unfinished master study of Ingres' portrait of Baroness James de Rothschild. We recreated an 11x14" portrait (successfully avoiding the difficult large silk dress that takes up the majority of the original painting). The amount of detail in an Ingres painting is just incredible - I think the details in the dress and jewelry take more time to paint than does the actual face.

Starting the first layer.

After several more layers, but still not finished.

The original full-size portrait by Ingres.