Ingres ' pupil Théodore Chassériau ( 1819 – 1856 ) had already achieved success with his nude The Toilette of Esther ( 1841, Louvre ) and equestrian portrait of Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort ( 1846 ) before he first visited the East, but in later decades the steamship made travel much easier and increasing numbers of artists traveled to the Middle East and beyond, painting a wide range of Oriental scenes.

He traveled by way of the Netherlands and France to Rome, In Paris he met Peter Andreas Heiberg, August Bournonville and the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Ingres was born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France, the first of seven children ( five of whom survived infancy ) of Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres ( 1755 – 1814 ) and his wife Anne Moulet ( 1758 – 1817 ).

In 1817 the Count of Blacas, who was ambassador of France to the Holy See, provided Ingres with his first official commission since 1814, for a painting of Christ Giving the Keys to Peter.

He also painted thirteen reclining nudes, with his Les Repos ( 1860 ) strikingly similar in pose to Ingres famous Le Grande Odalisque ( 1814 ), but Corot's female is instead a rustic bacchante.

Grande Odalisque painted by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres ( 1814 )

Comparison is also made to Ingres ' La grande Odalisque ( 1814 ).

Image: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814. jpg | Grande Odalisque, J .- A .- D. Ingres

The following year brought a prestigious commission, when Ingres was one of five artists selected ( along with Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Robert Lefèvre, Charles Meynier, and Marie-Guillemine Benoist ) to paint full-length portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul.

In the mid-19th-century, the Academism of training staff, much influenced by the doctrines of Dominique Ingres, was challenged by a younger generation of Russian artists who asserted their freedom to paint in a Realistic style.

Sainte-Beuve introduced him to Courbet and he ordered a painting to add to his personal collection of erotic pictures, which already included ( The Turkish Bath ) from Ingres and another painting by Courbet, Les Dormeuses ( The Sleepers ), for which it is supposed that Hiffernan was one of the models.

Ingres signed and dated it in 1862, although he made additional revisions in 1863.

His portraits have the intensity seen with Ingres and the Nazarene movement.

* Musée de Tessé, the fine arts museum of the city, displaying painting ( including artworks by Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Le Brun, François Boucher, John Constable, Ingres, Théodore Géricault and Camille Corot ) and archaeological collections as well as decorative arts.

Mining the vein of the small-scale historical genre piece, in 1815 he painted Aretino and the Envoy of Charles V as well as Aretino and Tintoretto, an anecdotal painting whose subject, a painter brandishing a pistol at his critic, may have been especially satisfying to the embattled Ingres.

After the completion of The Source, Ingres produced paintings of historical genre, such as two versions of Louis XIV and Molière, ( 1857 and 1860 ), as well as several religious works in which the figure of the Virgin from The Vow of Louis XIII is reprised: The Virgin of the Adoption of 1858 ( painted for Mademoiselle Roland-Gosselin ) was followed by The Virgin Crowned ( painted for Madame la Baronne de Larinthie ) and The Virgin with Child.

Three artists he idolized, Ingres, Delacroix, and Daumier, were especially well represented in his collection.

Degas's style reflects his deep respect for the old masters ( he was an enthusiastic copyist well into middle age ) and his great admiration for Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix.

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While the movement is often described as the opposed counterpart of Romanticism, this is a great over-simplification that tends not to be sustainable when specific artists or works are considered, the case of the supposed main champion of late Neoclassicism, Ingres, demonstrating this especially well.

It comprises works by Dutch artists such as Co Westerik and Jan Toorop, as well as works by Rodolphe Bresdin, Ingres, Paul Klee, Toulouse Lautrec, Odilon Redon and others.

Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, including, Andromeda Chained to the Rocks ( Rembrandt ), one of Titian's poesies ( Wallace Collection ), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael ( Louvre ), Veronese ( Rennes ), Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau.

French artists such as Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted many works depicting Islamic culture, often including lounging odalisques.

In contrast, linear could describe the painting of artists such as Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Ingres, whose works depend on creating the illusion of a degree of three-dimensionality by means of " modeling the form " through skillful drawing, shading, and an academic rather than impulsive use of color.

Installed in a studio on the grounds of the Villa Medici, Ingres continued his studies and, as required of every winner of the Prix, he sent works at regular intervals to Paris so his progress could be judged.

One of only two works sent back to Paris during Ingres ' six year term as Director of the French Academy in Rome, the Stratonice was exhibited for several days in mid-August 1840 in the private apartment of the duc d ' Orléans in the Pavilion Marsan of the Palais des Tuileries.

This marriage proved as happy as his first, and in the decade that followed Ingres completed several significant works.

In 1855 Ingres consented to rescind his resolution, more or less strictly kept since 1834, in favour of the International Exhibition, where a room was reserved for his works.

With renewed confidence Ingres now took up and completed one of his most charming productions, The Source, a figure for which he had painted the torso in 1823 ; when it was seen with other works in London in 1862, admiration for his works was renewed, and he was given the title of senator by the imperial government.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | Ingres ' Oedipus and the Sphinx was among the works displayed in the Fine Arts Pavilion.

The collection of drawings includes over 10, 000 British and 2, 000 old master works, including works by: Dürer, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Bernardo Buontalenti, Rembrandt, Antonio Verrio, Paul Sandby, John Russell, Angelica Kauffman, John Flaxman, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Kilburn, Thomas Girtin, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, David Wilkie, John Martin, Samuel Palmer, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Lord Frederic Leighton, Sir Samuel Luke Fildes and Aubrey Beardsley.

Orlando Furioso has been the inspiration for many works of art, including paintings by Tiepolo, Ingres, Redon, and a series of illustrations by Gustave Doré.

David's many students included Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, who saw himself as a classicist throughout his long career, despite a mature style that has an equivocal relationship with the main current of Neoclassicism, and many later diversions into Orientalism and the Troubadour style that are hard to distinguish from those of his unabashedly Romantic contemporaries, except by the primacy his works always give to drawing.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

The collection consists in approximatively 2, 000 paintings ( including pictures by Nicolas Poussin, Anthony Van Dyck, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and Ingres ), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15, 000 medals, 3, 700 sculptures, 20, 000 drawings including works by Paolo Veronese, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange, Michelangelo, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, François Boucher or Pierre Alechinsky, 45, 000 architectural drawings, 100, 000 etchings and engravings, 70, 000 photographs ( mainly form the period 1850-1914 ), 65, 000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century ( 3, 500 for the 15th and 16th centuries ), and 1, 000 handwritten pieces of archive ( letters, inventories, notes ...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.

However, the other European collections include examples of the work of many of the great masters of western painting, including an important version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier Van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others.

Many of the 149 works in the exhibit had never been seen outside France and included Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, Jupiter and Thetis by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and a portrait of Maximilien Robespierre by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard.

His Last communion of St. Jerome in this chapel reflects the influence of the school of Ingres on his religious works.

Highlights of its permanent collection include early Cubist paintings by Picasso and Juan Gris, and works by Cézanne, Boucher, Ingres, Degas, Matisse, Monet, Edward Hopper, and Norman Rockwell.

He enhanced the breadth of the 19th-century holdings with such early works as Ingres ' Betrothal of Raphael, bought in 1903.

Picasso ’ s paintings and drawings from this period frequently recall the work of Raphael and Ingres.

These paintings epitomized, both in subject and scale, the type of painting with which Ingres was determined to make his reputation, but, as Philip Conisbee has written, " for all the high ideals that had been drummed into Ingres at the academies in Toulouse, Paris, and Rome, such commissions were exceptions to the rule, for in reality there was little demand for history paintings in the grand manner, even in the city of Raphael and Michelangelo.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, a student of David's who was also influenced by Raphael and John Flaxman, would maintain the precision of David's style, while also exploring other mythological ( Oedipus and the sphynx, Jupiter and Thetis ) and oriental ( the Odalesques ) subjects in the spirit of Romanticism.