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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Artist's Name: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Preferred medium: painting
birth year: 1780
Nationality: FR
City: Paris

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Profile

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy. A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix. His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator." Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art. (Excerpt Wikipedia)

important exhibitions from Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Exhibition Location City Country Date
The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles US 12.09.2012
Von der Bühne zum Gemälde MART - Museo Trento e Rovereto Rovereto IT 06.02.2010
Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet Kunsthaus Zürich Zürich CH 12.02.2010
Collector Lille 3000 Lille FR 05.10.2011
Orientalismus in Europa: Von Delacroix bis Kandinsky Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung München DE 28.01.2011
Auf Leben und Tod Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln DE 17.09.2010
KÜNSTLER ZEICHNEN - SAMMLER STIFTEN Pinakothek der Moderne München DE 10.04.2008
Il Settimo Splendore - La modernità della malinconia Galleria d'Arte Palazzo Forti Verona IT 25.03.2007

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Collections representing
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Harvard Art Museum
Kunstmuseum Basel - Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Louvre
Metropolitan Museum
National Museum of Western Art
The Frick Collection
The National Gallery