A few weeks ago I went to the Norton-Simon Museum out in Pasadena. They were putting on a show of Rembrandts' sketches. Which I might say are quite detailed for the size of a few of them. Just the realistic look of them was quite amazing, I never thought you could do that with just a pencil. The painting on the right here is Louise de Broglie, Contesse d'Haussonville. 1845. By Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. For some reason this painting struck me as very good, granted you have a minor issue with the foreshorting of the right arm. But other then that it, the painting is actually quite good. You can see that Ingres spent quite a while on getting the fabric to look quite real. On this trip, I also was able to see some fine examples of Eastern art on the bottom floor of the museum. Mostly it was stonework or jade, but I was surprised at the craftsmanship of the stonework. To work stone in such a way would take quite a while, and the details that were on it, just blew my mind. Over all I quite enjoyed the visit to the museum, I even bought a poster of this painting, now it is hanging on my wall in my room.
