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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867) was a famous French painter, who influenced artists such as Degas, Cézanne and Renoir.
Ingres pursued an idea of ​​formal purity and elegance of line, contrasting the romanticism of Delacroix, and favored classical subjects, French medieval history and the nude. Among his most famous works we can mention “La grande baigneuse” (1807, in the Louvre) and “La grande odalisque” (1808, in the Louvre).
Ingres attended the Academy of Toulouse and the studio of J.-L. Read the full biography

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867) was a famous French painter, who influenced artists such as Degas, Cézanne and Renoir.
Ingres pursued an idea of ​​formal purity and elegance of line, contrasting the romanticism of Delacroix, and favored classical subjects, French medieval history and the nude. Among his most famous works we can mention “La grande baigneuse” (1807, in the Louvre) and “La grande odalisque” (1808, in the Louvre).
Ingres attended the Academy of Toulouse and the studio of J.-L. David in Paris, but distanced himself from the official style already in his first works of classical and archaic taste. He won the Prix de Rome in 1801, and went to Italy in 1806, orienting his studies above all to the Quattrocento artists and Raphael.
His works present at the Parisian Salons did not make a great impression until "The Vow of Louis XIII" (1824, Montauban Cathedral), which contrasted with the romanticism of Delacroix. Ingres was sensitive to certain aspects of pre-romantic culture and interpreted episodes of history medieval French, but also loved exotic subjects inspired by the iconography of Persian miniatures. His works are preserved in major international galleries and museums.