Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a famous French painter and draftsman associated with the French Neoclassical art movement. He is best known for his portrait paintings and drawings. Famous Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres artworks include “The Envoys of Agamemnon”, “Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne”, “The Grande Baigneuse”, “Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia”, “La Grande Odalisque”, “The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian”, “Portrait of Monsieur Bertin”, “Portrait of Comtesse d’Haussonville”, “The Princesse de Broglie”, and “The Turkish Bath”.
Mini biography: Born Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres on the 29th of August, 1780 in Montauban, Languedoc, France. His mother was Anne Moulet and his father Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres was an entrepreneur. Ingres married Madeleine Chapelle in 1813 and she died in 1849. He married his second wife Delphine Ramel in 1852 when he was 71. The artist died on the 14th of January, 1867 in Paris, France at the age of 86. Ingres is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France.
List of Famous Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Art Quotes
So the Salon is the scene of my disgrace; The scoundrels, they waited until I was away to assassinate my reputation. I have never been so unhappy. I knew I had many enemies; I never was agreeable with them and never will be. My greatest wish would be to fly to the Salon and to confound them with my works, which don’t in any way resemble theirs; and the more I advance, the less their work will resemble mine. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Color adds ornament to a painting; but it is nothing but the handmaiden, because all it does is to render more agreeable the true perfections of the art. Rubens and Van Dyck can be pleasing at first sight, but they are deceptive; they are from the poor school of colorists, the school of deception. Never use bright colors, they are anti-historic. It is better to fall into gray than to into bright colors. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Art will need to be reformed, and I intend to be that revolutionary. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I beg you, Monsieur le Directeur, to accept all my excuses and regret for not complying sooner to the request that you so kindly addressed to me. But I have just completed my portrait, finally, and I am ready to send it to you. However, I wanted to make this portrait simple and humble so that the great Painters among whom I am about to sit will not accuse me of prideful temerity. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Self Portrait Painting
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