Charles X in his Coronation Robes
Medium
Watercolor, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, squared in red chalk and graphite, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper and wrapped on board
Dimensions
26.1 × 19.9 cm (10 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12104
About the Artist
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1780–1867
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born on 29 August 1780 in Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne region of southern France, into a family with deep artistic and musical connections — his father was a painter, sculptor, and musician. He showed exceptional promise from childhood, enrolling at the Académie Royale in Toulouse where he studied under the sculptor Jean-Pierre Vigan, the landscape painter Je...