Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1780–1867 · Rococo & Neoclassicism
Biography
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, was the champion of line and drawing against Delacroix's Romanticism. His portraits and nudes combine precise draughtsmanship with sensual, elongated forms.
From the artist’s life
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), a pupil of David, was the leader of academic classicism in nineteenth-century France and a rival of Delacroix. He was also a superb portraitist and draughtsman.
From the page of Grande Odalisque
Paintings in this gallery (4)
Famous works elsewhere
- The Source 1856
- The Turkish Bath 1862
- Vénus Anadyomène 1808
- Portrait of Monsieur Bertin 1832
- Oedipus and the Sphinx 1808
- Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière 1806