Born:
29 August 1780; Montauban, France
Died:
January 14, 1867; Paris, France
Nationality:
French
Art Movement:
Neoclassicism, Orientalism
Field:
painting, drawing
Influenced by:
Nicolas Poussin, Jacques-Louis David, Raphael
Influenced on: Théodore Chassériau, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Henri Lehmann, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Deeply influenced by past artistic traditions, Ingres aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he regarded himself as a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits that are recognized as his greatest legacy. Regarded as an important pioneer of modern art for his expressive distortions of form and space, he influenced Picasso, Matisse and other modernists.
Ingres, who studied in the studio of David, debuted at his Salon in 1802 and won the Prix de Rome for his painting "The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles.” By the time he left for Rome in 1806, his style, showing his close study of Italian and Flemish Renaissance masters, changed little for the rest of his life.
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| The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1801) |
He worked in Rome and Florence from 1806 to 1824, regularly sending his paintings to the Paris Salon, but was criticized by critics who evaluated his style as bizarre and archaic. In 1824, when his Raphaelesque painting, "The Vow of Louis XIII", was praised, he was finally recognized at the Salon, and again in 1833 with his “Portrait of Monsieur Bertin" reaped popular success.
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| The Vow of Louis XIII, Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres (1824) |
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| Portrait of Monsieur Bertin, Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres (1832) |
The following year, however, his ambitious work, “The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian,” was severely criticized and it caused him to return to Italy, and then he returned to Paris in 1841 to spend the rest of his life.
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| The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1834) |
In his later years, he painted new versions of his early
works, a series of designs for stained-glass windows, several important
portraits of women, and “The Turkish Bath”, the last of his several female nude
paintings showing Orientalism.
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| The Turkish Bath, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1852–59, modified in 1862) |
Famous Works (Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres)
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