JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES Vanessa Mae Reminescing

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (pronounced [ ɛ̃ːɡʁ ] ) (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter . Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David , by the end of his life it was Ingres' portraits , both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy. A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix . His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator ." [1] Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, [2] while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art .

Roger Delivering Angelica

The Turkish Bath

The Grand Odalisque

Princesse de Broglie

Raphael and the Fornarina

Portrait of Charles Joseph Laurent Cordier

Ines Moitessier seated

Odalisques

Apotheose Homers

Self Portrait

Francois Marius Granet

Baronne James de Rothschild

Ossian

Paul Lemoyne

Paolo and Francesca

Don Pedro of Toledo kissing the Sword of Henry IV

Mademoiselle Caroline Rivere

The Death of Leonardo Da Vinci

An Adoring ,Loving Mother

Ambassadors sent by Agamemnon to Urge Achilles to Fight

Alix Genevieve de Seytres- Caumont Comtesse de Tournon

Madame Riviere

Baron Ross Gellee de Mortarieu

Study of a male nude

Self Portrait

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Louise de Broglie, Contesse d'Haussonvile

Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne

T H E E N D May.17.2009 A.C