Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingrès

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1780 - 1867

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingrès was a French painter who was born in Montauban in 1780. He received his first painting lessons from his father, Joseph Ingrès, who worked as a sculptor. He commenced with studies at the Academy in Toulouse in 1791 and became the apprentice of Jacques-Louis David in 1797. He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1799. Ingrès won the Prix de Rome in 1801 with a neoclassicist work, titled 'The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles'. Ingres started drawing portraits and painting in a manner that strongly deviated from that of Jacques-Louis David, mainly focussing on the posture, female beauty and the realistic depiction of clothing. He worked in a specific and personal style that was full of romantic fantasies.

The posture of the figures and the surrounding decors are different in every work. He uses refined lines and bright colors in his works. They often carry out a sense of sensuality and eroticism by depicting, for example, female figures wearing golden chains that accentuate their form. Moreover, Ingrès thought that color was secondary to the line, which led him to choose a line that clearly stated the shape of the object by her absolute natural faith. He believed that the Greeks did the same, this idea being reinforced by engravings found in Pompeï and Herculaneum.

When Ingrès lived in Italy around 1806, he intensivey studied the work of the painter Raphael. During that time, Ingrès often painted a recurring theme, namely female bathers, in paintings such as ‘Odalisque’ and ‘The Turkish Bath’. Ingrès is currently viewed upon as a respected and influential painter. His works can be seen in the most renowned museums all over the world.

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