Norton Simon Museum

The Norton Simon Museum is known around the world as one of the most remarkable private art collections ever assembled. Over a thirty-year period 20th-century industrialist Norton Simon (1907–1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years. Approximately 1,000 works from the permanent collection of 12,000 objects are on view in the Norton Simon Museum’s galleries and sculpture garden throughout the year.

Ingres and the Comtesse d'Haussonville

Norton Simon Museum
November 7, 2009, 4:00pm

Edgar Munhall, one of the world’s leading scholars of Ingres, discusses the importance of the comtesse’s portrait within Ingres’s long, multi-faceted career and introduces the artist’s little-known subject, Louise d’Haussonville, as one of the most remarkable women of her time. An examination of the fitful evolution of the portrait, its sources and myriad details reveals its dramatic complexity as “one of those images that appear in dreams,” as an early critic noted.

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