[INGRES] - Viscount Alfred ODART de PARIGNY (Art critic and - Lot 40

[INGRES] - Viscount Alfred ODART de PARIGNY (Art critic and pioneer of photography) / Important autograph obituary on INGRES, 10 pp., in-8, bound as a booklet, titled “Mr. Ingres and Contemporary Art”: “Mr. Ingres died in his 87th year {...] Just yesterday he was still there, cheerful and smiling; he was hosting a soirée and playing Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven—his favorite composers—for his guests. He was pleased with his good health and felt optimistic about a winter that had begun under such happy auspices. The following night, a log rolled into his fireplace; he got up, half-naked, to stoke the fire; but suddenly a cold set in, his chest became congested; the illustrious patient was suffocating. Within three days, he was dead […]" [Note: The Musée d’Orsay holds an album belonging to Viscount Odart de Persigny containing photographs he took of Ingres and his works; the album begins with this article by the Viscount, published in February 1867 in the magazine *L’Artiste* (a lavish publication edited by Arsène Houssaye) titled “Mr. Ingres and Contemporary Art,” which helps contextualize this manuscript: this is the manuscript of Odart de Persigny’s obituary for Ingres, which appeared in “l’Artiste.”]

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