806 - F. Binder, standing female nude with jug, spring nymph, copy after Ingres' "La Source"

F. Binder, standing female nude with jug, spring nymph, copy after Ingres' "La Source" Oil/canvas, signed lower right "F. Binder", copy after Ingres' "La Source", standing female nude in a rock cleft, looking at the viewer, the right arm laid over the head, holding with both hands an orange-brown earthenware jug on the left shoulder from which water flows, the feet in foaming water, below the reflection, on the left a plant with yellow flowers, on the right a dark green bush, good condition, image 53x43.5 cm (HxW), framed, frame slightly rubbed, frame width 5.5 cm The model for the depiction is "La Source" ("The Spring") by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 Montauban to 1867 Paris), begun in Florence around 1820 and completed in Paris in 1856, today in the Musée d'Orsay. Ingres shows a life-size spring nymph in contrapposto as an allegory of the spring; his pupils Paul Balze and Alexandre Desgoffe helped him with the accessories and background. Théophile Gautier praised the work, and the composition later inspired Seurat, Renoir, Maillol, Picasso and Magritte.