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IXCKKS the er, 252 ; Gruyer, Raphael Pcintrc do Por- traits. INGRES, JEAN AUGUSTE DOMI- NIQUE, bora at Montauban (Tam-tt- Garonne), Aug. 2!), 1780, died in Paris, Jan. 14, 1807. His- tory and portrait painter, pupil of Roques in Toulouse, and of David in Paris (1 71MJ) ; won the second grand prix in 1800, and grand prix do Rome in 1801, but being un- able to go to Italy on account of the war he spent the next five years in Paris studying the pictures in the Louvre, supporting him- self meanwhile by making designs and book illustrations. After living from 1801! to 1820 in Rome, where he studied the works of Raphael with devotion, and from 1820 to 1824 in Florence, ho returned to Paris to take rank as (me of the greatest artists of his time, and to produce an immense num- ber of works, many of which are of great excellence. As a colourist he is cold and unsympathetic, but us a draughtsman he is perhaps the first of French artists. Some of his portraits, as, for instance, that of M. Bertin, arc masterpieces in character and in drawing. Ho had many distinguished pu- pils, such as Hippolyte Flandrin, and was familiarly known in Paris as " Le pere In- gres. Member of Institute, 1826 ; director of the French Academy in Rome, 18:5411 ; L. of Honour, 1824 ; Officer, lS2(i ; Com- mander, 1845 ; Grand Officer ; Medal of Honour, 1855 ; Senator, 18(!2. Works : Antiochus sending back Scipio's Son (1800); Arrival of Agamemnon's Ambassadors in Tent of Achilles (1801), Ecolc des JJeaux Arts ; Philemon and Baucis (1802), Puy Mu- seum ; portraits of his father, of himself, of the sculptor Bartolini, of Bonaparte as First Consul (1804), Liege Museum ; Napoleon at the Bridge of Kehl, Venus wounded by Di- Oined (1804, both lost); Woman Bathing, Copy of Raphael's Farnesine Mercury, Mar- seilles Museum ; Copy of Raphael's Adam and Eve, (Kltjmx and the Sphinx, Napoleon on his Throne (1800), Invalides ; Portraits of M. Philibert Riviere, do. of Mine. Riviere ( 180(J), Louvre ; Portrait of Mine, de Vaucay, Portrait of Granet Member of Institute (1807), Woman Bathing (1808), Pius VII. holding Chapel, Jupiter and Thetis (1811), Aix Museum ; Portrait of M. Bochet (1811), Louvre; Portrait of a Lady (1812), Nantes Museum ; Odalisque, Romulus Conqueror of Acron, Palace of St. John Lateral! ; lliijili- '!>/ and the Fornarina (18115); Don Pedro of Toledo kissing the Sword of Henry IV., Cardinal Bibiena betrothing his Niece to Raphael, Odalisque, Portrait of Ingres' first Wife (1814); Virgil reading the .Kneid (1815); /Y/j<'ov da Rimini (181S); Roger rescuing Aiigi'Ucn (18111), Louvre; Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the Anus of Fran- cis L, Hi nn IV. and the Spanish Ambassa- dor, Philip V. of Spain and Marshal Ber- wick, Odalisque, Portrait of M. de Pressigny, Bishop of St. Malo, Duke of Aha and Pius V. (unfinished); Christ giving Keys to Peter (1820), Louvre; Mercenary Soldiers (1821); Charles V. ree'ntering Paris (1822); Vow of Louis XIII. (182:5). Cathedral of Montau- ban ; Portraits of Charles X., of Marquis de Pastorct, of Cardinal de Latil, of M. Martin (1825); Apotheosis of Jlmin'r, Apollo crown- ing the Iliad and the Odyssey (1827), Lou- vre; Martyrdom of St. Symphorien (18:51), Cathedral of Autun ; Virgin with the Host (18:5(i), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Oda- lisque and her Slave, Slriilniili;: ( 18:51), vari- ation in 1851)); Portrait of Cherubim (1842), Louvre ; Christ among the Doctors (1844, unfinished, bequeathed to city of Montau- ban); Aretino receiving a Gold Chain from Charles V., Tintoretto and Aretino, Venus Anadyomene, Golden Age (1848, unfinished), Due de Luynes ; Portrait of Mine, de Roth- schild (1848); Jupiter and Antiope, Lesueur among the Monks of Chartreuse, Molicre in the Morning, Racine in Court Dress, La Fontaine out Walking (4 sketches, 1851) ; 315