Study for the Figure of the Iliad in "The Apotheosis of Homer"

Study for the Figure of the Iliad in "The Apotheosis of Homer" by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Medium

Graphite and black chalk heightened with white chalk on brown paper

Dimensions

12 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (31.4 x 27 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971

Accession Number

1972.118.219

Tags

Women

About the Artist

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 17801867

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...

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