Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres : 1780-1867 /
Ingres
By Karin H. Grimme.
- Köln : Taschen, 2006.
- 96 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Bibliogr.: p. 96
Cont.: On the threshold of the modern era -- An ambitious young man -- Between Italy and France -- Faces and fashions -- Revolution and religion -- The search for paradise -- Chronology.
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.