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 Raphael and La Fornarina (mk04) Oil on canvas,
66.3x55.6cm
Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge
Ingres Posing for the Figure of the Virgin in the Vow of Louis XIII (MK04) c.1822-1824
pencil on paper,
42.5x23cm
Musee Ingres
Montauban Painting ID:: 20417
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Ingres Posing for the Figure of the Virgin in the Vow of Louis XIII (MK04) c.1822-1824
pencil on paper,
42.5x23cm
Musee Ingres
Montauban
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.