Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, a French Neoclassical painter, masterfully blended academic tradition with expressive distortions, influencing modernists like Matisse and Picasso.

ABOUT

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. 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. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an…

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NOTABLE WORKS

The Ponte dell'Abbadia at Vulci 1800 · Cleveland Museum of Art Antiochus sending Scipio's son back 1800 Torso (Painted Half-Figure) 1800 Portrait of a Young Man Standing on the Quirinal with the Turris Comitum in the Background 1800 · Cleveland Museum of Art Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775) 1805 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Jacques Marguet de Norvins 1806 · Cleveland Museum of Art

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Nicolas PoussinBaroque Classicism Jacques-Louis DavidNeoclassicism

Influenced

Henri MatisseFauvism Pablo PicassoCubism