[INGRES] - Vicomte Alfred ODART de PARIGNY(Art critic and pi - Lot 519

[INGRES] - Vicomte Alfred ODART de PARIGNY(Art critic and pioneer of photography, in which he took an early interest) / Important autograph obituary onINGRES, 10 p in-8 presented in a booklet, entitled "Mr Ingres et l'art contemporain": "M. Ingres died in his 87th year {...]. Only yesterday he was here, cheerful and smiling; he was giving an evening party and playing Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, his favorite masters, for his guests. He congratulated himself on his good health, and augured well for a winter begun under such happy auspices. The following night, a log rolled into his fireplace; he got up, half-naked, to raise his fire; but then a cold suddenly broke out, his chest became engorged; the illustrious sufferer suffocated. In three days, he was dead" - "In the presence of this tomb, which has just closed on the last of our great contemporary painters, so late and yet so early for France and for art, I feel deeply moved, and I can't help but retrace in a few words the luminous path of the great man we mourn, and the immense part he played in the artistic movement of our time" [NB: the Musée d'Orsay holds an album by Vicomte Odart de Persigny containing photographs he took of Ingres and his works. The album begins with an extract from an article by the Vicomte published in February 1867 in the magazine "l'Artiste" (a luxury publication directed by Arsène Houssaye) entitled "Mr Ingres et l'art contemporain", which helps to situate the present manuscript: this is the manuscript of Odart de Parigny's obituary of Ingres in "l'Artiste"].