Jean auguste dominique ingres biography summary

French painter (–)

"Ingres" redirects here. For other uses, see Ingres (disambiguation).

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (ANG-grə; French:[ʒɑ̃oɡystdɔminikɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August &#;– 14 January ) was a French Neoclassicalpainter.

Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy.

Jean auguste dominique ingres biography summary

His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists.

Born into a modest family in Montauban, he travelled to Paris to study in the studio of David.

In he made his Salon debut, and won the Prix de Rome for his painting The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Ach