Noun
French classical painter (1780-1867)
Source: WordNetI wanted to proclaim a return to simplicity by ways of an immediate art without any subtlety, comprehensible to all. I love Louis David, because he is so anti-impressionist.. .I love the dryness in his work and also in that of Ingres. That was my way, and it touched me, instantly. Fernand Léger
After revisions which eventually reduced the Duke to a tiny figure in the background, Ingres left the work unfinished. Source: Internet
After the completion of The Source, Ingres painted two versions of Louis XIV and Molière (1857 and 1860), and produced variant copies of several of his earlier compositions. Source: Internet
Although facing uncertain prospects, in 1813 Ingres married a young woman, Madeleine Chapelle, who had been recommended to him by her friends in Rome. Source: Internet
As his envoi of 1808 Ingres sent Oedipus and the Sphinx and The Valpinçon Bather (both now in the Louvre ), hoping by these two paintings to demonstrate his mastery of the male and female nude. Source: Internet
Chaussard (Le Pausanias Français, 1806) condemned Ingres's style as gothic and asked: How, with so much talent, a line so flawless, an attention to detail so thorough, has M. Ingres succeeded in painting a bad picture? Source: Internet