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| 0b4524f | In Paris, we spent hours at the Louvre examining great works by Gericault, Trioson, Da Vinci--the Mona Lisa was surprisingly small but had yet to be cordoned off and encased--and Ingres. I remember marveling at Ingres's Valpincon Bather. April and I couldn't believe you could make a painting that embodied such silence. I also remember looking at Jacques-Louis David's paintings The Coronation of Napoleon and The Death of Marat and trying to .. | Eric Fischl |