Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without knowing it, TIME also sketched a revealing portrait of contemporary Germany. Pale but plump, simple-minded but Prussianistically pompous...
...what may be the prime catch of the years was quietly bagged last December by Manhattan Financier and Collector Robert Lehman, whose one-collection show at the Louvre's Orangerie last summer was the hit of Paris (TIME, July 1). The painting: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' masterful portrait, La Princesse de Broglie (see cut), for more than 100 years the possession of France's Dues de Broglie, now hanging in the dining room of Robert Lehman's Park Avenue apartment. Estimated price...
Ingres began the portrait on June 16, 1851, when the princess was 26. She was a subject made to order for Ingres, who, French Poet Baudelaire noted, "depicts women as he sees them, for it would appear that he loves them too much to wish to change them; he fastens upon their slightest beauties with the keenness of a surgeon; he follows the gentlest sinuosities of their line with the humble devotion of a lover." The Princess de Broglie was not only a great beauty but a great lady, among whose descendants are some of France's leading critics...
Collector Lehman's new acquisition is considered by some experts to be Ingres' greatest portrait of a woman. But what really makes the purchase a prime coup is that La Princesse is, in all probability, the last great Ingres portrait likely to come on the market...
...same tacit veneration accorded Durer ought to go to Lucas Cranach, who, for some reason, has been underrated in this country, although there are a number of particularly fine Cranachs here. The Metropolitan Museum's portrait of John, Duke of Saxony, and especially Judgement of Paris are first rate canvasses. Yet, comparatively speaking, Cranach has been passed...