Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
JeanAugusteDominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and JacquesLouis David, by the end of his life it was Ingress portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.
Ingres was born in Montauban, TarnetGaronne, France, the first of seven children of JeanMarieJoseph Ingres and his wife Anne Moulet . His father was a successful jackofalltrades in the arts, a painter of miniatures, sculptor, decorative stonemason, and amateur musician his mother was the nearly illiterate daughter of a master wigmaker. From his father the young Ingres received early encouragement and instruction in drawing and music, and his first known drawing, a study after an antique cast, was made in 1789. Starting in 1786 he attended the local school cole des Frres de lducation Chrtienne, but his education was disrupted by the turmoil of the French Revolution, and the closing of the school in 1791 marked the end of his conventional education. The deficiency in his schooling would always remain for him a source of insecurity.
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