Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres J. A. D. Ingres (1780-1867)
was born in Montauban on August 29, 1780, the son of an unsuccessful sculptor and painter. French painter. He was the last grand champion of the French classical tradition of history painting. He was traditionally presented as the opposing force to Delacroix in the early 19th-century confrontation of Neo-classicism and Romanticism, but subsequent assessment has shown the degree to which Ingres, like Neo-classicism, is a manifestation of the Romantic spirit permeating the age. The chronology of Ingres's work is complicated by his obsessive perfectionism, which resulted in multiple versions of a subject and revisions of the original. For this reason, all works cited in this article are identified by catalogue.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Sistine Chapel (mk04) Oil on canvas.
74.5x927.cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington
Portrait of the Architect Jean-Baptiste Desdeban (mk04) c.1810
Oil on canvas,
63x49cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie,
Besanqon Painting ID:: 20401
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Portrait of the Architect Jean-Baptiste Desdeban (mk04) c.1810
Oil on canvas,
63x49cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie,
Besanqon
Portrait of Madeleine Ingres,nee Chapelle (mk04) c.1814
Oil on canvas,
68x54cm
Stiftung Sammlung E.G.Buhrle,
Zurich Painting ID:: 20403
J. A. D. Ingres (1780-1867)
was born in Montauban on August 29, 1780, the son of an unsuccessful sculptor and painter. French painter. He was the last grand champion of the French classical tradition of history painting. He was traditionally presented as the opposing force to Delacroix in the early 19th-century confrontation of Neo-classicism and Romanticism, but subsequent assessment has shown the degree to which Ingres, like Neo-classicism, is a manifestation of the Romantic spirit permeating the age. The chronology of Ingres's work is complicated by his obsessive perfectionism, which resulted in multiple versions of a subject and revisions of the original. For this reason, all works cited in this article are identified by catalogue.