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Ingres and the Studio offers a powerful new account of Ingres s principally female portrait subjects, situated in the context of contemporary aesthetic and artistic debates and no less situated within the context of Ingres s studio practice and its psychological dynamics. Marc Gotlieb, Williams College

Betzer frames Ingres as an innovator whose contributions surpassed struggles waged on academic terrain. By probing the distinction between academic and ingriste, established via the portrait-as-history and negotiated through the bodies of Ingres's female sitters, Betzer rejects old criticisms to establish ingriste practice as a crucial bridge to modernity, an idea forwarded by her conclusion's examination of Edgar Degas's The Bellelli Family (1858-67) as a history portrait. In this handsomely illustrated and persuasively written text, however, Betzer's true contribution lies in her excavation of Ingres's frequently dismissed students, many of whom have received relatively minimal critical consideration in the art historical literature. --Mary Manning, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Betzer frames Ingres as an innovator whose contributions surpassed struggles waged on academic terrain. By probing the distinction between academic and ingriste, established via the portrait-as-history and negotiated through the bodies of Ingres s female sitters, Betzer rejects old criticisms to establish ingriste practice as a crucial bridge to modernity, an idea forwarded by her conclusion s examination of Edgar Degas s The Bellelli Family (1858-67) as a history portrait. In this handsomely illustrated and persuasively written text, however, Betzer s true contribution lies in her excavation of Ingres s frequently dismissed students, many of whom have received relatively minimal critical consideration in the art historical literature. Mary Manning, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

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Sarah Betzer is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia.

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