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French painter (1780–1867)

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (ANG-grə; French:[ʒɑ̃oɡystdɔminikɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicalpainter.

Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style.

The Apotheosis of Homer is a grand painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, now exhibited at the Louvre as INV

The Apotheosis of Homer is a grand painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, now exhibited at the Louvre as INV

Ingres typically produced his portrait drawings without preparation and in a single sitting.

Auguste-Dominique was born in in Montauban, a small town in southern France.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres () was a French Neoclassicist painter.

Early years Ingres was born in in Montauban, a provincial town, about 40 miles from Toulouse, in the southwest of France.

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 important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists.

Born into a modest family in Montauban, he travelled to Paris to study in the studio of David. In 1802 he made his Salon debut, and won the Prix de Rome for his painting The Ambassadors of Agam