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INGRES, JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE,
born at
Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne),
Aug. 29,
1780, died in Paris,
Jan. 14, 1867. History
and portrait
painter, pupil of
Roques in Toulouse,
and of David in
Paris (1796); won
the second grand prix in 1800, and the
grand prix de Rome in 1801, but being unable
to go to Italy on account of the war he
spent the next five years in Paris studying
the pictures in the Louvre, supporting himself
meanwhile by making designs and book
illustrations. After living from 1806 to
1820 in Rome, where he studied the works
of Raphael with devotion, and from 1820 to
1824 in Florence, he returned to Paris to
take rank as one of the greatest artists of
his time, and to produce an immense number
of works, many of which are of great
excellence. As a colourist he is cold and
unsympathetic, but as a draughtsman he is
perhaps the first of French artists. Some
of his portraits, as, for instance, that of M.
Bertin, are masterpieces in character and in
drawing. He had many distinguished pupils,
such as Hippolyte Flandrin, and was
familiarly known in Paris as "Le père Ingres."
Member of Institute, 1826; director
of the French Academy in Rome, 1834-41;
L. of Honour, 1824; Officer, 1826; Commander,
1845; Grand Officer; Medal of
Honour, 1855; Senator, 1862. Works:
Antiochus sending back Scipio's Son (1800);
Arrival of Agamemnon's Ambassadors in
Tent of Achilles (1801), École des Beaux
Arts; Philemon and Baucis (1802), Puy Museum;
portraits of his father, of himself, of
the sculptor Bartolini, of Bonaparte as First
Consul (1804), Liège Museum; Napoleon at
the Bridge of Kehl, Venus wounded by Diomed
(1804, both lost); Woman Bathing,
Copy of Raphael's Farnesine Mercury, Marseilles
Museum; Copy of Raphael's Adam
and Eve, Œdipus and the Sphinx, Napoleon
on his Throne (1806), Invalides; Portraits
of M. Philibert Rivière, do. of Mme. Rivière
(1806), Louvre; Portrait of Mme. 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 Lateran; Raphael
and the Fornarina (1813); 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 Æneid
(1815); Francesca da Rimini (1818); Roger
rescuing Angelica (1819), Louvre; Death
of Leonardo da Vinci in the Arms of Francis
I., Henri IV. and the Spanish Ambassador,
Philip V. of Spain and Marshal Berwick,
Odalisque, Portrait of M. de Pressigny,
Bishop of St. Malo, Duke of Alva and Pius
V. (unfinished); Christ giving Keys to Peter
(1820), Louvre; Mercenary Soldiers (1821);
Charles V. reëntering Paris (1822); Vow of
Louis XIII. (1823), Cathedral of Montauban;
Portraits of Charles X., of Marquis de
Pastoret, of Cardinal de Latil, of M. Martin
(1825); Apotheosis of Homer, Apollo crowning
the Iliad and the Odyssey (1827), Louvre;
Martyrdom of St. Symphorien (1834),
Cathedral of Autun; Virgin with the Host
(1836), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Odalisque
and her Slave, Stratonice (1839, variation
in 1859); Portrait of Cherubini (1842),
Louvre; Christ among the Doctors (1844,
unfinished, bequeathed to city of Montauban);
Aretino receiving a Gold Chain from
Charles V., Tintoretto and Aretino, Venus
Anadyomene, Golden Age (1848, unfinished),
Duc de Luynes; Portrait of Mme. de Rothschild
(1848); Jupiter and Antiope, Lesueur
among the Monks of Chartreuse, Molière in
the Morning, Racine in Court Dress, La
Fontaine out Walking (4 sketches, 1851);
