The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Medium
Pen and brown ink and graphite and brush and gray and brown wash, with touches of red and ocher gouache, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card, laid down on blue matboard
Dimensions
17 × 13.7 cm (6 3/4 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202342
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...