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This portrait represents the famous "Bertin aine, the director / of the "Journal des Debats"." It is signed "J. Ingres, pinxit / 1832," and was exhibited at the Salon of 1833.
The "OEdipus" was followed, in 1808, by the "Seated Bather" (now in the Louvre); in 1811, by "Jupiter and Thetis" (now at the Museum of Aix), a curiously Flaxman-like design; in 1812, by the "Dream of Ossian" (now at Montauban); and in 1814, by a scene of real life, "The Pope officiating among the Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel" (now in the Louvre). In this marvellous picture the artist has for once avoided the painful task of invention which he habitually imposed upon himself. He abandoned himself completely to the imperious suggestion of what was actually before his eyes. The truth, life, and richness of colour and tone of this little picture have led some of his recent admirers to speak of it as the most complete and perfectly balanced of all the artist's works.