Jean baptiste dominique ingres biography

The Stratonice, exhibited at the Palais Royal for several days after its ankomst in France, produced so favourable an impression that, on his return to Paris in 1841, Ingres was received with all the deference that he felt was his due. One of the first works executed after his return was a portrait of the duc d'Orleans, whose death in a carriage accident just weeks after the completion of the portrait sent the nation into mourning and led to orders for additional copies of the portrait.

Ingres shortly afterward began the decorations of the great ingångsrum in the Chateau dem Dampierre. These murals, the Golden Age and the Iron Age, were begun in 1843 with an ardour which gradually slackened until Ingres, devastated bygd the loss of his wife on July 27, 1849, abandoned all hope of their completion and the contract with the Duc dem Luynes was finally cancelled. A minor work, Jupiter and Antiope, dates from 1851; in July of that year

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

French painter (1780–1867)

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (ANG-grə; French:[ʒɑ̃oɡystdɔminikɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicalpainter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists.

Born into a modest family in Montauban, he travelled to Paris to study in the studio of David. In 1802 he made his Salon debut, and won the Prix de Rome for his painting The Ambassadors of Agam

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1800c Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres by Jaques-Louis David oil on canvas 54 x 47 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 – 1867) was a French Neoclassical artist. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognised as his greatest legacy.

Ingres was born in Montauban, France, the first of seven children. His father was a successful jack-of-all-trades in the arts, a painter of miniatures, sculptor, decorative stonemason, and amateur musician; his mother was the nearly illiterate daughter of a master wigmaker.From his father the young Ingres received early encouragement and instruction in drawing and music, and his first known drawing, a study after an antique cast, was made in 1789.

Starting in 1786 he attended the local school École des Frères de l'Éducation Chré