1. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was finally recognized at the Salon in 1824, when his Raphaelesque painting, The Vow of Louis XIII, was met with acclaim, and Ingres was acknowledged as the leader of the Neoclassical school in France.
27 Facts About Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres came in second in his first attempt, but in 1801 he took the top prize with The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles.
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Napoleon is not known to have granted the artists a sitting, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's meticulously painted portrait of Bonaparte, First Consul appears to be modelled on an image of Napoleon painted by Antoine-Jean Gros in 1802.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painted a new portrait of Napoleon for presentation at the Salon of 1806, this one showing Napoleon on the Imperial Throne for his coronation.
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In later years Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painted several variants of these compositions; another nude begun in 1807, the Venus Anadyomene, remained in an unfinished state for decades, to be completed forty years later and finally exhibited in 1855.
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In 1811 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres completed his final student exercise, the immense Jupiter and Thetis, a scene from the Iliad of Homer: the goddess of the Sea, Thetis, pleads with Zeus to act in favor of her son Achilles.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres wrote with enthusiasm that he had been planning to paint this subject since 1806, and he intended to "deploy all of the luxury of art in its beauty".
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres traveled to Naples in the spring of 1814 to paint Queen Caroline Murat.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres never received payment, due to the collapse of the Murat regime and execution of Joachim Murat in 1815.
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In 1816 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres produced his only etching, a portrait of the French ambassador to Rome, Monsignor Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres spent four years bringing the large canvas to completion, and he took it to the Paris Salon in October 1824, where it became the key that finally opened the door of the Paris art establishment and to his career as an official painter.
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The success of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's painting led in 1826 to a major new commission, The Apotheosis of Homer, a giant canvas which celebrated all the great artists of history, intended to decorate the ceiling of one of the halls of the Museum Charles X at the Louvre.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was unable to finish the work in time for the 1827 Salon, but displayed the painting in grisaille.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres exhibited in the Salon of 1833, where his portrait of Louis-Francois Bertin was a particular success.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres conceived the painting as the summation of all of his work and skill, and worked on it for ten years before displaying it at the Salon of 1834.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres later did participate in some semi-public expositions and a retrospective of his work at the 1855 Paris International Exposition, but never again took part in the Salon or submitted his work for public judgement.
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The second painting he sent, in 1840, was The Illness of Antiochus a history painting on a theme of love and sacrifice, a theme once painted by David in 1800, when Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was in his studio.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres declared that the revolutionaries were "cannibals who called themselves French", but during the Revolution completed his Venus Anadyomene, which he had started as an academic study in 1808.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres welcomed the patronage of the new government of Louis-Napoleon, who in 1852 became Emperor Napoleon III.
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In 1843 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres began the decorations of the great hall in the Chateau de Dampierre with two large murals, the Golden Age and the Iron Age, illustrating the origins of art.
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In 1856 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres completed The Source, a painting begun in 1820 and closely related to his Venus Anadyomene.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres died of pneumonia on 14 January 1867, at the age of eighty-six, in his apartment on the Quai Voltaire in Paris.
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The rivalry first emerged at the Paris Salon of 1824, where Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres exhibited The Vow of Louis XIII, inspired by Raphael, while Delacroix showed The Massacre at Chios, depicting a tragic event in the Greek War of Independence.
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The dispute between the two painters and schools reappeared at the 1827 Salon, where Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres presented L'Apotheose d'Homer, an example of classical balance and harmony, while Delacroix showed The Death of Sardanapalus, another glittering and tumultuous scene of violence.
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At the 1855 Universal Exposition, both Delacroix and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres were well represented.
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The best known of them is Theodore Chasseriau, who studied with him from 1830, as a precocious eleven-year-old, until Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres closed his studio in 1834 to return to Rome.
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An important retrospective of works by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was held at the Salon d'automne in Paris in 1905, which was visited by Picasso, Matisse, and many other artists.