Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780—1867) was a Neoclassical painter most appreciated for his portraits and his various influence on a new generation of painters
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Summary
- Born in Montauban, in Southern France, he died in Paris, in the area of the Quai Voltaire
- Studied under Jacques-Louis David before attending, very successfully, the École des Beaux-Arts
- Worked in Rome for a period of two decades and under illustrious commissions
- Became Director of the French Academy in Rome before teaching at the École
- Several future artists were his pupils but many, like the Impressionists, were influenced even only by the academic standard he had set
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Famous Paintings
- The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the Tent of Achilles (1801)
- Bonaparte, First Consul (1804)
- Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne (1806)
- Madame Duvaucey (1807)
- The Valpinçon Bather or Seated Woman (1808)
- Romulus’ Victory over Acron (1811)
- The Vow of Louis XIII (1824)
- Portrait of Monsieur Bertin (1832)
- The Illness of Antiochus (1840)
- The Turkish Bath (1862)