Picasso & Ingres: Face to Face at the National Gallery

Two paintings, one classically 19th-century and another 20th-century modern painting that is its artistic mirror have gone on display together for the first time.
The story goes that Pablo Picasso was on a visit to Paris in 1921 and saw the 1856 painting, Madame Moitessier by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and was inspired to produce his own interpretation.
The result was Picasso’s ‘Woman with a Book’ that was, by coincidence, shown off in Paris in 1932 at one exhibition, at th