Grimme, Karin H.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres : 1780-1867 / Ingres By Karin H. Grimme. - Köln : Taschen, 2006. - 96 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

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French Neoclassical painter, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was one of the 19th century's major portrait and historical painters. Though renowned for his painting of Oriental nudes reclining in harems or a Turkish baths, Ingres was also a master draughtsman, and left 4000 sketches and drawings to his home town of Montauban.

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Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 1780-1867.


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