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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 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 a…
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culture · French painter (1780–1867) · painter · politician · violinist · draftsperson · printmaker · graphic artist · architect · architectural drafter · visual artist · also Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jean August Dominique Ingres, Jean Dominique Auguste Ingres, J.-August Ingres, Dominique Ingres, Jean-Dominique Ingres
Born 29 August 1780 · Died 14 January 1867 · Q23380
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2026· 1 entry
2006· 1 entry
On the occasion of the year dedicated to Ingres in France museums
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1907· 1 entry
But was rejected, before being given to the Louvre in 1911
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1905· 1 entry
Which was visited by Picasso, Matisse, and many other artists
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1867· 3 entries
Died 1867-01-14.
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“Drawing is the probity of art”
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Career landmark: funeral.
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1862· 4 entries
Was awarded the title of Senator, and made a member of the Imperial Council on Public Instruction
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Career landmark: Second Empire senator (1862–1867).
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Although he made additional revisions in 1863
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Completed a small oil-on-paper version of The Golden Age
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1859· 1 entry
Produced new versions of The Virgin of the Host, and in 1862 he completed Christ and the Doctors, a work commissioned many years before by Queen Marie Amalie for the chapel of Bizy
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1856· 1 entry
Ingres completed The Source (The Spring), a painting begun in 1820 and closely related to his Venus Anadyoméne
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1855· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1855).
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An emerging consensus viewed his portrait paintings as his masterpieces
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1854· 1 entry
Completed another history painting, Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII
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1853· 1 entry
Began the Apotheosis of Napoleon I, for the ceiling of a hall in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris
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1852· 3 entries
Ingres, then seventy-one years of age, married forty-three-year-old Delphine Ramel, a relative of his friend Marcotte d'Argenteuil
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Career landmark: marriage.
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And sold to Prince Napoleon in 1859, it was returned to the artist soon afterward—according to a legend, Princess Clothilde was shocked by the abundant nudity
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1845· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1845).
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1843· 1 entry
Ingres began the decorations of the great hall in the Château de Dampierre with two large murals, the Golden Age and the Iron Age, illustrating the origins of art
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1842· 2 entries
Painted a second version, nearly identical to the first but with a landscape background (painted by his student Paul Flandrin)
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Ingres received commissions to make additional copies
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1840· 2 entries
However, the younger artist's growing allegiance to the romantic style of Delacroix was apparent, leading Ingres to disown his favourite student, of whom he subsequently spoke rarely and censoriously
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Was The Illness of Antiochus (1840; also known as Aniochus and Stratonice) a history painting on a theme of love and sacrifice, a theme once painted by David in 1800, when Ingres was in his studio
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1838· 1 entry
That the students of Ingres in Rome "had a deplorable lack of knowledge of the truth and power of colour, and a knowledge of the different effects of light
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1836· 1 entry
Refused a major commission from the French Minister of the Interior, Adolphe Thiers, to decorate the interior of the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, because the commission had been offered first to a rival, Paul Del
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1835· 1 entry
Career landmark: director of the French Academy in Rome (1835–1840).
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1834· 1 entry
Finished a large religious painting, The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian, which depicted the first saint to be martyred in Gaul
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1833· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1833).
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1826· 2 entries
To a major new commission, The Apotheosis of Homer, a giant canvas which celebrated all the great artists of history, intended to decorate the ceiling of one of the halls of the Museum Charles X at the Louvre
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In two competing versions by Delpech and Sudré found eager buyers; Ingres received 24,000 francs for the reproduction rights – twenty times the amount he had been paid for the original painting six years earlier
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1825· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1825).
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Made a chalk drawing in vertical format as a model for a reproductive engraving made by Pradier in 1832
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1824· 2 entries
By the Ministry of the Interior for the Cathedral of Autun, and the iconography in the picture was specified by the bishop
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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
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1821· 1 entry
Finished a painting commissioned by a childhood friend, Monsieur de Pastoret, The Entry into Paris of the Dauphin, the Future Charles V; de Pastoret also ordered a portrait of himself and a religious work (Virgin with
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1820· 2 entries
Ingres and his wife moved to Florence at the urging of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, an old friend from his years in Paris
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This imposing work was well received in Rome but to the artist's chagrin the ecclesiastical authorities there would not permit it to be sent to Paris for exhibition
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1819· 1 entry
Sent his reclining nude, La Grande Odalisque, as well as a history painting, Philip V and the Marshal of Berwick, and Roger Freeing Angelica, based on an episode in the 16th-century epic poem Orlando Furioso by Ariost
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1817· 1 entry
The Count of Blacas, who was ambassador of France to the Holy See, provided Ingres with his first official commission since 1814, for a painting of Christ Giving the Keys to Peter
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1816· 2 entries
Ingres produced his only etching, a portrait of the French ambassador to Rome, Monsignor Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny
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Or 1817 from the descendants of the Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, for a painting of the Duke receiving papal honours for his repression of the Protestant Reformation
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1815· 2 entries
Painted Aretino and Charles V's Ambassador as well as Aretino and Tintoretto, an anecdotal painting whose subject, a painter brandishing a pistol at his critic, may have been especially satisfying to the embattled Ing
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Resulted in a stillborn baby, the couple remained childless
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1813· 1 entry
Ingres married a young woman, Madeleine Chapelle, recommended to him by her friends in Rome
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1812· 1 entry
Painted one of his few portraits of an older woman, Comtesse de Tournon, mother of the prefect of Rome
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1811· 1 entry
Ingres completed his final student exercise, the immense Jupiter and Thetis, a scene from the Iliad of Homer: the goddess of the Sea, Thetis, pleads with Zeus to act in favor of her son Achilles
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1810· 2 entries
Ingres's pension at the Villa Medici ended, but he decided to stay in Rome and seek patronage from the French occupation government
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Studied at French Academy in Rome (1806–1810).
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1807· 2 entries
But not completed until 1848, after a long hiatus resulting from his indecision about the position of the arms
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The Venus Anadyomene, remained in an unfinished state for decades, to be completed forty years later and finally exhibited in 1855
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1806· 2 entries
“deploy all of the luxury of art in its beauty”
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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
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1803· 1 entry
Received a prestigious commission, being one of five artists selected (along with Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Robert Lefèvre, Charles Meynier, and Marie-Guillemine Benoist) to paint full-length portraits of Napoleon Bonapar
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1802· 2 entries
Made his debut at the Salon with Portrait of a Woman (the current whereabouts of which is unknown)
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Made his Salon debut, and won the Prix de Rome for his painting The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles
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1801· 3 entries
Awarded Prix de Rome (1801).
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Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1799–1801).
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Took the top prize with The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles
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1800· 1 entry
And 1801, he won the grand prize for figure painting for his paintings of male torsos
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1780· 1 entry
Born 1780-08-29.
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