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Ingres (pronounced like angry with the y cut off) traveled the road of the masters almost from his childhood in the Gascon town of Montauban. At nine he was already turning out drawings of astonishing maturity, and in 1797, when he was 17, he joined the Paris studio of the great classicist Jacques Louis David. But while David's figures remained solid and heroic, those of Ingres soon became pliant and touched with elegance. David took his inspiration from ancient Rome, and painted frequently from Roman statues. Ingres was struck by the Italian Renaissance primitives, by early Greek...
JEAN AUGUSTS DOMINIQUE INGRES, a rare look at the work of a conservative 19th century (1780-1867) French master who was never fully appreciated in the U.S. during his lifetime. The Ingres Museum in his native Montauban has combed its collection of 4,000 paintings and drawings, sent over 53 of the master's finest: 16 religious scenes, landscapes and portraits, 37 delicate drawings of prancing nude dancers, a Madonna-like head, a ragged Roman beggar, a man playing cards. All show Ingres' love of classic line and precise detail. One of his mannered best: a pencil drawing...
...Metz have been forcibly retired for noncollaboration. In Unoccupied France, the hierarchy has solved the thorny problem of getting along with Vichy and at the same time preventing Petain from using Catholic groups as the social prop for his regime by keeping out of politics. Said the Bishop of Montauban: "We can naturally not collaborate when this involves a confusion between the spiritual and the temporal. . . . France, yes, and heartily, but God first...
Died. Manuel Azafia, 60, president of the Spanish Republic during the Civil War; of lung congestion, with heart complications; at Montauban, France...
...cognac. These lusty lads have been driving an average of 200 heavy trucks per day from Republican France over the officially closed frontier into Leftist Spain. The 2,000 tons they took in daily were mostly passed as "agricultural implements" or "foodstuffs." A truck careening down the road at Montauban overturned last week, the French driver was killed, four large cases of "foodstuffs" broke open, and out rolled war plane motors. At Honfleur, France, an overloaded winch, lifting huge cases out of a steamer flying the flag of Panama which had arrived with "agricultural machinery" for Leftist Spain, broke down...