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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Prints
About Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French painter, born in Montauban in 1780, who died in Paris in 1867. He entered the studio of Jacques-Louis David in Paris in 1797 and won the Prix de Rome in 1801. He then spent many years in Italy, first in Rome and from 1820 in Florence, before returning to Paris around 1824. In 1834 he went back to Rome as director of the French Academy there, staying until 1841.
Ingres was the great champion of Neoclassicism, a style built on clear drawing and smooth, idealised forms, and he was often set against the colour and drama of the Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix. His works include Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne (1806), the Valpinçon Bather (1808), La Grande Odalisque (1814) and The Apotheosis of Homer (1827). While in Italy he also earned money drawing small pencil portraits of visiting tourists. He called them potboilers, but they are admired today for their precise, delicate line and sharp sense of character.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres prints: reproductions of portraits, nudes and history paintings by the French Neoclassical painter Ingres, made between 1804 and 1858. The collection includes The Source (1856), Madame Moitessier (1851), Comtesse d'Haussonville (1845), Princesse de Broglie (1853) and Odalisque with Slave (1839).
This selection centres on Ingres's portraits, especially his painted portraits of women in silk dresses, from Madame Duvaucey (1807) to Madame Gonse (1852), alongside male sitters such as François-Marius Granet and his own Self-Portrait Aged 24 (1804). It also includes his reclining odalisques and literary and religious scenes such as Paolo and Francesca (1858), Angelica Saved by Ruggiero (1819) and Pope Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel (1814).
The portraits, with their smooth finish and rich blues, blacks and golds, suit living rooms, dining rooms and entrance halls; the single-figure works fit studies and bedrooms. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
