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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1843-1847
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: 1780–1867
Other names (16)
Dominique Ingres, Ingres, ingres jean-auguste, ingres jean auguste dominique, j.a.d. ingres, JAD Ingres, J.-August Ingres, jean aug. d. ingres, Jean aug. dom. ingres, Jean August Dominique Ingres, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jean Auguste Ingres, Jean Dominique Auguste Ingres, Jean-Dominique Ingres, Jean Ingres, Zhan Ogi︠u︡st Dominik Ėngr
Biography
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( ANG-grə; French: [ʒɑ̃ oɡyst dɔminik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists.
Born into a modest family in Montauban, he travelled to Paris to study in the studio of David. In 1802 he made his Salon debut, and won the Prix de Rome for his painting The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles. By the time he departed in 1806 for his residency in Rome, his style—revealing his close study of Italian and Flemish Renaissance masters—was fully developed, and would change little for the rest of his life.
While working in Rome and subsequently Florence from 1806 to 1824, he regularly sent paintings to the Paris Salon, where they were faulted by critics who found his style bizarre and archaic. He received few commissions during this period for the history paintings he aspired to paint, but was able to support himself and his wife as a portrait painter and draughtsman.
He was finally recognized at the Salon in 1824, when his Raphaelesque painting, The Vow of Louis XIII, was met with acclaim, and Ingres was acknowledged as the leader of the Neoclassical school in France. Although the income from commissions for history paintings allowed him to paint fewer portraits, his Portrait of Monsieur Bertin marked his next popular success in 1833. The following year, his indignation at the harsh criticism of his ambitious composition The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian caused him to return to Italy, where he assumed directorship of the French Academy in Rome in 1835.
He returned to Paris for good in 1841. In his later years he painted new versions of many of his earlier compositions, a series of designs for stained glass windows, several important portraits of women, and The Turkish Bath, the last of his several Orientalist paintings of the female nude, which he finished at the age of 83.
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- musée Ingres Bourdelle — Montauban3,172 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre52 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art41 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art21 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago17 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et galerie David-d'Angers — Angers11 recorded works
- Musée Ingres, Montauban, France9 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art9 recorded works
- musée Bonnat - Helleu, musée des beaux-arts de Bayonne — Bayonne8 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly8 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon5 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay5 recorded works
- Harvard Art Museums3 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris3 recorded works
- National Gallery3 recorded works
- Civiche Raccolte Grafiche e Fotografiche del Castello Sforzesco2 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art2 recorded works
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse2 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen2 recorded works
- musée Fabre — Montpellier2 recorded works
- Frick Collection, New York City, NY, US1 recorded work
- MUDO - musée de l'Oise — Beauvais1 recorded work
- musée Crozatier — Le Puy-en-Velay1 recorded work
- musée d'art et d'archéologie — Guéret1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts — Paris1 recorded work
- musée des arts décoratifs et du design — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Carcassonne1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lyon1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes1 recorded work
- musée Hyacinthe Rigaud — Perpignan1 recorded work
- musée national du château de Pau — Pau1 recorded work
- Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo (MASP), Sao Paulo, Brazil1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)1 recorded work
- Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, US1 recorded work
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- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen
- musée d'Orsay — Paris
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