Portrait of J.A. Ingres
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 7 1/2 × 5 15/16 in. (19 × 15.1 cm) Sheet: 11 in. × 7 1/2 in. (28 × 19 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.756-267
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Léopold Flameng|Alfred Salmon|Gazette des Beaux-Arts · 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...