Cocktails with a Curator: Ingres's "Comtesse d'Haussonville"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” Curator Aimee Ng explores the history behind one of the audience favorites at the Frick, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s “Comtesse d’Haussonville.” Sometimes referred to as the “poster girl” of The Frick Collection, the subject of this celebrated portrait led a fascinating life, taking piano lessons from Chopin and writing biographies of Lord Byron and the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet. (She published the books anonymously to avoid a scandal.) This week’s complementary cocktail calls for an ounce of absinthe, an anise-flavored spirit invented in Switzerland, the country of her birth.
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FEATURED COCKTAIL: Jaded Countess (absinthe, vodka, lemon juice, simple syrup, champagne); the mocktail is anise syrup and lemon juice, topped with sparkling water. For the complete recipes, visit Frick.org/cocktails.
Absinthe - not a myth - I have a friend who had true absinthe, not the watered down version legal today - and it caused hallucinations where his hostess appeared to him with Medusa-like snakes in her hair!
I read that another reason it was banned was that it caused hypertensive episodes in people that would kill them.
Very nice. Thanks. Always enjoyed that portrait.
You have no idea how I wait for Friday evenings. I so enjoy Ms. Ng and Mr. Salomon and I hope it continues on for quite a while. I hope this is okay to mention here, but I also enjoy Mr. Salomon's Save Venice. I'm traveling the world with right here in my den, along with delightful cocktails! Salute!
They stop next month.(9/10)
Love love love these videos! 😍 I live in Italy and here the live streaming is 11pm, I just can't wait to come back from work (I work afternoon /evening) and see what Aimee and Xavier will show. Thanks and keep up the good work. ☺️
Another truly wonderful outline of a beautiful work of art. "Cocktails with a Curator" has been one of the wonderful online gems that I have discovered during this pandemic. So incredible that I can enjoy it all the way from Australia. Thank you Aimee and everyone involved with this fabulous series. xxx
Yet another spectacular lecture from the stars at the Frick.I freaking LOVE you guys ,keep up the good work!
This episode of Cocktails with a Curator evokes the transitory nature of human life. In the time of COVID it pulled at my heartstrings. Thank you for these moments of reflection.
I love the way the camera gives predominance to the painting, allowing us to soak up the totality of the work, as well as the “mannered elegance” of the details. Thank you.
Thank you. Your commentary was excellent. Very spontaneous, but polished, nonetheless. It helped to capture the persons of the painter and the subject. I was reminded of Housman’s poem, “To an Athlete Dying Young”, when you discussed the capture of a moment in a portrait. Who cares if she gained weight later. Here she is, immortal. Still looking forward to revisiting the Frick, sooner, rather than later.
Love your work. Will be at the new/old Frick in December of 2024. Very excited.
Thoroughly enjoyable! Thank you.
I went to Hunter College from 1980-83. It was free for students to get into the Frick. I think I win five days a week mostly just to look at that painting. 40 years later it’s still my favorite
I look forward all week for your time with us ...both Xavier and Aimee. Wouldn't it be fun to just walk behind them and listen to their conversation and learn from them ??? Thank you to Aimee this was wonderful.
The obvious joy in this woman's appreciation of her subject shine like a beacon I now look at this superb work with a fresh eye . Thank you so much you made my day , sorry no my week !
For someone who loves light and shade I really enjoy the work of Ingres. Never realized about the idealised bodies before so will bear that in mind in the future. Wonderful exposition, thank you.
Read or watch TH-cam ¨The Secret Knowledge¨ by David Hockney! Amazing!
Hi Beverly! There is BBC TH-cam vídeo explaining those weird bodies. Its called " The secret knowledge" about an instrument called camera clara, used for drawing. The painter David Hockney research It and It changed me forever! How did I never notice those 3 elbows, 2 knees, etc...? 😀😀😀 If you visit Brasil Someday, visit the MASP museum in São Paulo. Its amazing
This has been a great series. I have also been watching Art in Isolation and Perspective - on TH-cam. I’ve been surprised that the MET hasn’t been really visible until a few days ago. They have obviously lost focus. This was an opportunity to tell the stories of the people and places in Art. Thank you for focusing on the art
Another great episode in this series. Mr. Salomon and you give us such wonderful historical expose’s ! I hope the series continues!
this painting is equisite. i've been thinking about it recently so it's great to find this. thx
Excellent in every way. Thank you so much.
Arrrgh, so wonderful!! More please. Plus you photograph beautifully
Thanks for showing this beautiful paintings.
I highly recommend an 80s BBC dramatization of Ingres' life in their Artists and Models series that depicts, among others, Ingres' hostility to Delacroix.
I’m trying to find a way to watch the full version online. Do you know of a way to watch that?
These lectures are always so interesting! Dr Salomon e Dr Ng have different approach. He is more focused with history, I think, she is very passionate and so attentive to the material quality of pictures. I like them all, I hope this weekly appointments last for long. thank you so much
Charming and fact filled as ever. Watch out for that cocktail! LOL
Enjoyed it very much! Thank you yet again.
When I visited the Frick last month I discovered this painting and was fascinated. It was such a joy to hear all this detail and her story. Thanks, Ms. Ng for such a wonderful explanation of the painting, the subject and the painter.
Thank you! I never get enough of this art history, in this form. 🇨🇦
One of the best of these Cocktails with the Curator. Thanks.
Love her history! Thankssss from Buenos Aires, Argentina!
I’m rewatching these lovely reminders of Covid, a period of terrible sadness for many, but also a respite from the relentless push for achievement. You are a light in the darkness of that time, and I want you to know how grateful I am. Salute!
One of my favourite paintings! I loved her story.
I do love your observations, the life of this subject, and the commentaries of their time. Very rich and sensitive. Thank you.
Love it! Thank you!
i really enjoy these 'romps' through art history.
Loved your description of the Comtesse and Ingres. Thank You. I once had a wonderful visit at The Frik Collection, but never formally introduced to the Comtesse d'Haussonville. Now I must go back and visit her again :) Merci
Wow Aimee, another wonderful lecture. Thank you so much. I look forward to all of the Frick presentations; they're absolutely wonderful.
I adore this portrait. I so miss my visits to the Frick. Thank you for these recordings.
Thank you for the wonderful lecture!
Great history entwined with art.
Excellent presentation!
I live for these videos! That drink sounds ultra lethal
Agreed on both counts
I had given up watching “Cocktails” because some of the previous videos seemed more about the presenter than the painting..... That said, this was a surprise.
The young woman who presented the painting of the Countess was delightful. [My favorite docents fade into the background so the paintings are in the foreground.]
She zeroed in on fine details of the painting [like I could if I was standing in FRONT of it, ], presented an extensive cultural context of the painter, the subject even the the objects on the table. I thoroughly enjoyed walking through the history of all mortals involved especially with her calm demeanor and intelligent french accent. Many thanks
Outstanding lecture!
I LOVED this presentation! The portrait has always been a favourite of mine, (as I'm sure of many!), and this brief discussion was a total treat! Not sure my cocktail was quite up to it as I used Herbsaint, (what I had at the back of the liqueur cabinet), but it will do in a pinch. Now, as a personal favour to a devoted follower of these delightful interludes, please, please, pretty please could we have one devoted to Romney's Lady Hamilton? (My total, absolute, utter, no-debate-ever favourite work of art in the entire collection.)
I just looked it up and I absolutely agree !! It is fabulous, now can we find a tie-in to the Frick ?
Thank you for a great lecture about my all-time favorite painting.
Another wonderful evening! Thank you!
Again a very charning and interesting lecture
I came to Cocktails with a Curator for Xavier but now I stay for Aimee (o:
Great Painting !and cocktail !! Can't wait to see it again ...I hope before starting demolition of our favorite museum
Very enjoyable. Tx!
Oh the impossible anatomy! The hell with accuracy, grace wins! I've heard this is what Picasso loved, the distortions.
Wonderful choice Ms Ng!! This painting inspired a portrait composition by a dear departed friend, Fran Gillespie
Marvelous!
Thank you for interesting lectures with and without cocktails...
I really appreciate that the Frick makes these available. BUT, I was disappointed that Ms. Eng didn't speak more about the painting itself, helping us to understand it.
Great!! Thank you very much for these informations...
Thanks to the Frick for doing this . So interesting .
Thank you so much. Lovely lectures.
I loved this! Thank you so much!
Most wonderful; excellent. Thank you.
So interesting, entertaining, and edifying. Thank you.
Prosper Merimee was a french writer ,madame, and and a very good one...you know..
Wonderful review. Thank you
Excellent
Thank You 🌹
Thank you again the possibility to see the countess so beautiful painted in her blue dress wearing her ring with here dreaming eyes looking pale loving face.The artist had a feeling to finde such a god modell from the high society.Thank to Frick Foundation.
I have never understod Napoleons life but his paintig by the same artist is like a living men.How is it possible that his widow Letizia Bonapate is burried in Rome?Sorry just came into my minde suddenly about old times beuties.Thanks again god night.
Superb lecture, thank you.
These Frick curator videos are delightful.
How many vertebrae do You have?
How is Your arm connected to Your shoulder?
Aimee does not mention that one of the descendants of the Comtesse was one of the most important physicists of the quantum revolution, Prince Louis de Broglie (pronounced de Breuil).
When Peter Fonda was diagnosed with an undersized heart, his doctor prescribed absinthe. Peter asked why. Doc replied, “absinthe makes the heart grow, Fonda”.
33 with the top 24 movable and the sacrum and coccyx fused. (Usually)
wonderful
Excellent and informative!
High Pleasure is this from The
Frick
Thank you Aimee. Saluti da Roma
I love this series--a gift to us at home avoiding the coronavirus. The Frick has always been a favourite. But now that the anatomy of the right arm has been pointed out, I'm having trouble ignoring the creepiness of it. I'd like to hear more about the rationale since it's clearly not a lack of talent or knowledge.
Thank you! I have loved these from the start, and shared them with many friends and former students. Since my district isn't allowing field trips this coming year, would your education department consider a version of these for students?
So fascinating. I have always loved the portrait, but I knew little of the sitter. Regarding the anatomy, I have also noticed that the mirror reflection of the back of her head is impossible. She is not standing in a way that the back of her head would be reflected the way it is.
Meg Gallucci - in fact the painting is flawed in so many ways that it should be immediately deaccessioned and given to me.
Laurence Dankel Sorry, I have first dibs.
Great story!!!
Aimee! 😍
looks like there is something wrong with the right arm of the sitter. It seems so low for its body proportion and the angle too.
You rock, Aimee!
Do Mr. Salomon and Ms. Ng oversee the Pittsburgh Frick collection as well?
I could not watch yesterday but I would like to say that Ms Ng didn´t mention the David Hockney research about those strange human bodies in very accurate paintings. I highly recommend everybody to read the book/watch on TH-cam ¨The Secret Knowledge¨, where Ingres work triggers his curiosity.
I used to pronounce his name "Ing-grez" but now I know better!
Why would Ingres distort that arm in such a manner? it is so noticeable almost like a third arm.
I hope you shall comment on the subject of the right arm/shoulder.
Um why not just watch the video and find out? (o;
¨The Secret Knowledge¨ by David Hockney explains those weird bodies.
Ever since I saw his drawings I have revered Ingres, although he was probably an insufferable person in real life 😊
One strong drink! I have always associated absinthe with the French demi-monde
Not impossible anatomy here. That’s my own anatomy. I am very high waisted and have no problem draping my arm across my waist to prop up my other elbow. She too is high waisted and you can tell by how high the waistline is on her dress. Like me, it’s a few inches above her elbow.
Everything (information) are fine, except for the cocktail mentioned in this episode! Thinking about how Absinthe made many artists became unstabled and crazy at the end, it should continue to be ban and obsolete in the market! ( Poor Van Gogh, and many others.)🤔💀🥵
too bad the few bars of the introductory music are so abysmally poor! They should be better
to honor the excellent work of the curators, and that of Chardin !
Rolf Leemann - I happen to think the music is perfect.
Well then ... Thanks for your noncommittal reply. Still think a little more musicakl art
would fit the gorgeous pieces shown and finely commented
I noticed that horrible arm immediately, it’s monstrous. It’s deformed and looks like it belongs to someone stood behind her. In all the cartoons the arm is similarly drawn wrong. The attempt at foreshortening is a disaster, the positioning and proportion abysmal - and l’m sorry but a portrait painted in a precise manner like this DOES have to be grounded in reality
Iran is Persia
At first I also thought she said "Persia, not Iran", but I think she actually says "Persia, now Iran" (o:
[a]ng talking about [i]ng[res] lol
finally I was waiting for this one