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Ingres
was a sensitive and painstaking draftsman. For
him, drawing was the very heart of painting,
and he drew and redrew whatever he was to paint
until he understood all its elements and their
subtlest interrelations. Though he valued history
painting above all else, he also often produced
portraits, some of the best of which are drawings.
Even in his portraits Ingres exhibited a sensual
feeling that was more often expressed in the
nudes that preoccupied him as he got older and
his style developed. His Turkish Women at the
Bath, produced at 82 years of age, is the culmination
of his portrayals of female nudes.
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