Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867) French
Pencil on Paper
Measure 3 1/2"in H x 10"in W and 9 1/2"in H x 16"in W with frame

Biography: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born on August 29, 1780, the son of a house decorator, painter and sculptor of Montauban, France. At the age of nine he was already turning out drawings of astonishing maturity. His father taught him the rudiments of painting and drawing and made him learn the violin. He studied painting under several local instructors at the Academy in Toulouse; he also played the violin in the orchestra there and was for a time tempted to renounce painting in favor of music. But his teachers foresaw a successful career for him and encouraged him to follow his artistic bent. He went to Paris at the age of seventeen to study with the great neo-classic painter David, whose style was based on antique art. Ingres rebelled against David's rigidity. In 1799, Ingres was accepted as a student by the PaintinDespite his talent, Ingres completed relatively few paintings in his lifetime. He worked so methodically, in his demanding search for perfection, that his complex historical paintings often took years to finish. Even following this slow pace, he frequently suffered false starts and distressing indecision about many of his works. He continued to paint until a week before his death. The last portrait he painted was one of himself at the age of eighty-five. He had fulfilled his program, his life was coming to an end, and in two years he was dead. When he died in 1867, he left a legacy marking him as one of the greatest classical artists since Raphael.g Department of the School of Beaux Arts, where he distinguished himself and won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1801. The prize entitled him to four years of study in Rome at the French Academy; but the government's financial difficulties made it impossible for Ingres to make the trip until 1806.

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