Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres facts for kids
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
29 August 1780 Montauban, Languedoc, France
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| Died | 14 January 1867 (aged 86) |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
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Notable work
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Louis-François Bertin, 1832 The Turkish Bath, 1862 |
| Movement | Neoclassicism |
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy.
Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Picasso, Matisse and other modernists.
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Early life
He was born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. His father was a painter, sculptor and violinist, and taught the young Ingres in all these disciplines. The boy's talent for music seemed most promising at first — performance of a concerto of Giovanni Battista Viotti was applauded at the theatre of Toulouse. In 1791 he entered the Royal Academy of Arts in Toulouse where he studied art under Joseph Roques, sculpture under J. Vigan, and landscape painting under Briant.
From an early age he was determined to be a history painter, which was considered the highest level of painting. He did not want to simply make portraits or illustrations of real life like his father; he wanted to represent the heroes of religion, history and mythology, to idealize them and show them in ways that explained their actions, rivaling the best works of literature and philosophy.
Death
Ingres died of pneumonia on 14 January 1867, at the age of eighty-six, in his apartment on the Quai Voltaire in Paris. He is interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris with a tomb sculpted by his student Jean-Marie Bonnassieux. The contents of his studio, including a number of major paintings, over 4000 drawings, and his violin, were gifted by the artist to the city museum of Montauban, now known as the Musée Ingres.
Images for kids
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Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, 1806, oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm, Musée de l'Armée, Paris
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Medallion portrait of Julie Forestier, 1806, by Ingres
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Romulus' Victory Over Acron (1811), the Louvre
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Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia (1812, later reworked), Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
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Self-Portrait, 1822, National Gallery of Art
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The Vow of Louis XIII (1824), Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Montauban
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The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian (1834), Cathedral of Autun
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The Illness of Antiochus (1840), Musée Condé, Chantilly
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Self-Portrait at Seventy-Eight (1858), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
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Mme Victor Baltard and Her Daughter, Paule, 1836, pencil on paper, 30.1 x 22.3 cm
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Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Portrait of Marie-Françoise Rivière (1805–06), oil on canvas, 116.5 x 81.7 cm, Louvre
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Portrait of Charles Marcotte (1810), National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Portrait of Monsieur Bertin (1832), the Louvre
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Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville (1845), Frick Collection, New York
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Portrait of Baronne de Rothschild (1848), Rothschild Collection, Paris
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The violinist Niccolo Paganini (1819)
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Study for the portrait of the Vicomtesse d'Haussonville (circa 1844)
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Academic Study of a Male Torso, 1801, National Museum in Warsaw
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Self-Portrait, 1804, revised c. 1850, Musée Condé, Chantilly
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Madame Duvaucey, 1807, Musée Condé, Chantilly
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Mademoiselle Jeanne-Suzanne-Catherine Gonin, 1821, Taft Museum of Art
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The Princesse de Broglie, née Joséphine-Eléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, 1853, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII, 1854, Louvre
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Mme. Moitessier, 1856, National Gallery
See also
In Spanish: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres para niños
