![]() ![]() Gabrielle is presumed to be pregnant and her sister’s rather provocative gesture towards her sibling could be a symbol suggesting fertility. It’s a private scene, as denoted by the overhanging vermillion satin drapes. It’s a nude bathing scene of Henry IV’s mistress and her sister, because that’s apparently what the aristocracy did in the 16th century. You should wander to the Richelieu gallery just to have a snicker over this theatrical double portrait by an anonymous School of Fontainbleau artist. Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters Location: Denon Wing, 1st Floor, Room 702Īnonymous, Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters, 1594 4. But Grand Odalisque helped lay the foundation for the more expressive Romanticism movement, led by a young Eugene Delacroix. Ingres continued to be attacked over his painting until the mid-1820s. The lines are explicitly sinuous and sensual, not rigid. In Grande Odalisque, grace not accuracy is the goal. Or it could be indicative of his embrace of Venetian painting. The Oriental style painting might have marked Ingres’ transition from pure Neoclassicism to a more romantic style. The subject of the painting, an exotic nude harem girl, was also decried as inappropriate. In 1814, Ingres unveiled Grand Odalisque to ridicule and complaints that she was deformed and anatomically inaccurate. Ingres’ career was not as tidy as his salon categorization would have you believe. So it’s hard to believe the student of the very proper Jaques-Louis David could cause a scandal with a painting, but he did. He was a salon painter and neoclassicist. He represents the conservative strand of French painting. Ingres was strongly influenced by the Italian Renaissance. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814 2. Location: Sully Wing, 2nd Floor, Room 912 While it’s a moralizing painting, The Cheat is also comedic with its bright colors, sidelong glances, and surprising elements of composition. The victim is doubtless the feathered- headed young man who has naively succumbed to the triple temptations of wine, women, and gambling. They don’t look at each other.īut the tense scene feels set for tragedy. There’s just a blank black background, perhaps suggesting amorality. It’s also unclear where the card game takes place. It’s unclear who’s complicit in the cheating. The Cheat depicts a psychological drama, a card game where a foppish, expensively dressed youth on the right is about to be cheated by a card shark on the left. With its dark backgrounds and refracted light, it’s reminiscent of Caravaggio only with diamond precise outlines. The Cheat With the Ace of Diamonds is one of my favorites in the Louvre. I start this list of Louvre hidden gems with a mysterious Georges de la Tour painting. Georges de la Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds The Palais de Tokyo says in a statement that both rulings stated that “the sole intention of the artist is to denounce a crime and that the Palais de Tokyo has precautions aimed at unaccompanied minors… the also provides prior to seeing the work elements of context.” Guillaume Désanges, the president of the Palais de Tokyo, says in a statement: “We regret the extreme consequences of this polemic which has been damaging for the artist and the public.Georges de la Tour, The Cheat With the Ace of Diamonds, 1625 1. Cahn added in a statement: "This painting deals with the way in which sexuality is used as a weapon of war, as a crime against humanity.” The group of plaintiffs later appealed the decision in the French Council of State, the country’s highest administrative jurisdiction, but this was also thrown out a month later. The judge, Sylvie Vidal, ruled that Cahn’s work refers to crimes committed in Bucha, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion. They alleged that the painting promoted paedophilia, stressing that the smaller figure in the work is a child. In March, a French court rejected a lawsuit brought against the Palais de Tokyo by a group of organisations led by the Association Juristes de l’Enfance (Lawyers for Childhood). More than 80,000 visitors have attended the show so far. The work features in a retrospective dedicated to Cahn, Ma Pensée Serielle, which opened in February a spokesperson for the Palais de Tokyo confirmed that the defaced controversial painting will remain on view until the exhibition closes on 14 May. ![]()
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