Portret van Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny
Medium
etching
Dimensions
309; 557; 381; 211
About this artwork
Portret van aartsbisschop Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny staand bij een tafel met een document in zijn hand. Onder de voorstelling staat een Frans vers in vier regels.
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...