Portrait of a Man
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 10.3 × 7.8 cm (4 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Sheet: 27.5 × 18.5 cm (10 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
87372
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...