Fun Facts: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 1780-1867
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Ingres birthday was in August. So to celebrate the anniversary, let’s get into our fun facts.
Ingres was born in the southern French town of Montauban.
At age 12 he studied at the Academy of Toulouse with the painter Joseph Roques who was a friend of Jacques-Louis David.
Ingres was a strong defender of the academic tradition, which centered on the study of the nude figure and classical art. This movement was in contrast to romanticism, which Delacroix was an leading proponent of.
He saw himself as a history painter, which was the highest goal of a painter working in the academic tradition at the time.
Portraiture he considered less important, however a number of his portraits are now famous.
He was a student of Jacques Louis David and also at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
Ingres won a Rome scholarship in 1801. He received an unfavorable reception at the Paris Salon, which some say is why he began to study in Rome at that time.
He was influenced by Italian art and the artist Raphael. He mastered portraiture.
Ingres painted small scenes of literary texts, French history, and lives of artists. They were sold to French Royalty.
Ingres returned to his home country and became the director the French Academy.
He was also an excellent violinist and could have had a successful career as a musician.
In fact, the French expression for having a second string to one’s bow is ‘violin d’ingres.’
While still in good health at 87, Ingres died of a brief illness in January of 1867.
Sources: nga.gov, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
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