Caleb De Jong reviews Ingres at the Morgan on view at the Morgan Library, New York through November 27, 2011.

De Jong writes: "Seventeen drawings in the Library's holdings and three letters are displayed in a single, focused, crystalline room… As direct and immediate as any drawing made in the history of the practice, Ingres portraits, nudes and landscapes mark time with each pencil line… Cumulatively, the constellation of marks stands for a unit of time spent looking and drawing."