Acknowledgements

Introduction 1

Pt. 1 Fashionable Lines 7

1 Fashion, the Critic and the Artist 9

2 Ingres's Feeling for Fashion 15

3 Women and the World of Fashion 31

4 A Narrative of Fashion: Ingres's Portrait Drawings 47

Pt. 2 Painted Ladies 91

5 Women in White 93

6 Women in Black 107

7 Women of the World 127

8 Still Lives 175

Pt. 3 Ingres's Orientations 197

9 Naked and Profane 199

10 Eastern Promises 203

11 Ingres Imagines the Orient 219

12 'La Touche d'Ingres' 237

Notes 239

Select Bibliography 250

Photograph Credits 254

Index 255

"For more than half of the nineteenth century, French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) depicted the rapidly changing appearance of the fashionable woman with meticulous attention to detail and with rare perception and empathy. Working in a period that witnessed the development of a consumer society and the beginnings of couture, Ingres charted in his portraits how clothes were worn and what part they played in definitions of identity and status. This book explores for the first time the ways in which clothing, accessories, and fabrics define and display women in Ingres's portraits. With more than 150 illustrations that include the artist's portraits, fashion plates, portraits by contemporaries, and surviving items of costume, the book illuminates Ingres's work and its relation to the social and artistic discourse of his time."--BOOK JACKET. "Eminent dress historian Aileen Ribeiro analyses in detail Ingres's attitudes, his skill in depicting clothing, and how he portrays the real and idealised woman in his paintings and drawings of the fashionable mainstream - the grandes dames of elite society, the newly opulent bourgeoisie, English visitors to Italy, and family and friends. Ribeiro also devotes a section of the book to the part played by textiles and accessories in Ingres's images of bathers and odalisques."--BOOK JACKET.