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Mademoiselle Rivière

Greetings Card
1999 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This greeting by the French firm Nouvelles Images demonstrates that the card is a useful medium for reproducing all manner of images. Here, a "classic" face painted by Ingres is reinterpreted by cropping the picture, creating a contemporary 'close-up' composition.


Object details

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Object type
TitleMademoiselle Rivière (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph printed on card
Brief description
Greetings card reproducing a detail from a Dominique Ingres painting.
Physical description
Cropped detail of a female face (taken from Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' oil on canvas painting "Mademoiselle Rivière" of 1805, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris).
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.9cm
  • Width: 12.1cm
Credit line
Given by Tim Travis in memory of Michael Travis
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Summary
This greeting by the French firm Nouvelles Images demonstrates that the card is a useful medium for reproducing all manner of images. Here, a "classic" face painted by Ingres is reinterpreted by cropping the picture, creating a contemporary 'close-up' composition.
Collection
Accession number
E.918-2000

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Record createdMay 12, 2004
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