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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French artist born on August 29, 1780. Ingres contributed to the Neoclassical and Academic movements and died on January 14, 1867. Get notified when Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's biography is complete:

Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne

1806

La Grande Baigneuse

1808

Grande Odalisque

1814

Odalisque with Slave

1839
Portrait of Alexandre Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

1823-1889
Portrait of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime

1755-1842

Joseph Ducreux

Renaissance painter wins the internet

1735-1802
Portrait of George Stubbs

George Stubbs

1724-1806
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

Actress on stage and screen moonlights as a sculptor

1844-1923
Portrait of Elizabeth Jane Gardner

Elizabeth Jane Gardner

1837-1922
17011900
Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Nature wins, every time
John Constable Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
A pacifist paints lions and leopards
Edward Hicks
Friend of the birds
John James Audubon

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