Madame Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, née Madeleine Chapelle
Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 5/8 x 5 11/16 in. (19.3 x 14.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2004
Accession Number
2004.475.2
Tags
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...