French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born in Montauban. He studied under J. Roger, G. Vigan, J. P. Brian in Toulouse and at J.-L. David in Paris. His creative

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – one of the largest portraitists of the XIX century. However, the artist himself did not consider the portrait the main genre in his work. He

French painter and graphic artist, representative of the academic school of painting, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, wrote the canvas “Gianchotto overtakes Paolo and Francesca” at the time of its formation

Nu – one of the constants of creativity Engra. Charles Baudelaire said that the artist “follows the bends of the female body with the passion of an ardent lover.” Theophile

This work completes the creative path of Engr. In it, he returned to one of his favorite topics. Niu once glorified the artist. The picture, nostalgically turned to the past,

A young, beautiful and happy woman, full of dignity and independence, looks at us truthfully and simply. The proud posture seems surprisingly natural, devoid of any coquetry. And only half-opened

The portrait of the Russian Count ND Guriev Engr wrote in Florence in the spring of 1821. Guryev was the adjutant of Alexander I, in the past – a participant

Before us is Madame Rivier, whose portrait, together with her daughter, was ordered by her husband. Of particular importance is his chosen oval composition, inscribed in a rectangle. This oval

“Portrait of Louise D” Ossonville “is underlined, modest – this beautiful and educated lady did not need an idealization, and yet, when the canvas was ready, someone said to the

The canvas of religious content Engr wrote throughout his life. Religious painting experienced a period of decline in the years of the Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, but in the

This large painting, ordered for the Roman Church of the Holy Trinity as early as 1817, Ingres finished, only in the summer of 1820. The painting depicts the scene of

The seventeen-year-old Jeanne d’Arc with a classic graceful beauty with an artificial face in an “unassailable” pose is depicted in a canvas with a name that duplicates the historical fact

Ingres wrote “The Great Odalisque” in Rome for Napoleon’s sister Carolina Murat. The painting was exhibited in Paris in the Salon in 1819. Following the example of Renaissance artists, Ingres

This mythological picture completes a number of mandatory for the students of the French Academy in Rome “parcels” of Ingres to Paris. In Italy, a young painter immersed himself in

The first version of this historical painting, in which the great ancient Roman poet reads his immortal poem to the family of Emperor Augustus, was written seven years earlier and