Famous french paintings - Ingres

Ingres paintings and drawings

our mini gallery

Odalisque

Girls Montagus

Riviere

Grand odalisque

The source

Turkish bath

A genius from the south of France

A famous French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born at Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi Pyrenees, France) on the 29th of August 1780. His first lessons in art he received from his father, who was a painter and sculptor. Ingres continued then his training in the Toulouse Academy. In 1801 he won the Prix de Rome with his painting masterpiece the Ambassadors of Agamemnon, and since that time gained wide recognition. He is known as one of the major portrait painters of the 19th century. The Ingres museum in Montauban, founded 1843, received the contents of his studio by bequest. Numerous of his famous paintings and great amount of drawings are exhibiting there. Among Ingres’ fine masterpieces are these on our display: The Grande Odalisque, The Odalisque, The Girls Montagus, The m-le Riviere, The Source, The Turkish bath.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

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