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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867)

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, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.

A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix. His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator." Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art.

The Turkish Bath, 1863

The Bather of Valpinçon, 1808

Jupiter and Thetis, 1811


Angelica in Chains, 1818-1859

The Grande Odalisque, 1814

Odalisque with Slave, 1842

Half-figure of a Bather, 1807

Jupiter and Antiope, 1851

Perseus and Andromeda

The Small Bather, 1828

The Source, 1856

Venus Anadyomene, 1848

Venus at Paphos

Male torso, c.1800

Male nude, 1801

Naked woman lying on a rock

Study of the naked holy Isabella of France



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