Portrait d'Ingres (Portrait of Ingres)

Charles Nègre, André Jammes

National Gallery of Art

This is a print that contains various elements including faces, landscapes, and abstract details. The central focus is a detailed sketch of a face on the left. This face is the largest of the designs and takes up about half of the print. It shows a person with short hair, light skin, thin eyebrows, deep-set eyes, round cheeks, and a small mouth set in a neutral expression. On the right is an assortment of smaller sketches and patterns. These include abstract shapes, two small rectangular landscapes, and two profile drawings of people, with several small patches of crosshatching lines scattered across the page. There are also two darker abstract sections that have no clearly discernable shape. The profiles and landscapes are all oriented differently from the larger face, so they seem to be flipped to the side. The background of the print is off-white paper.