The Four Magistrates of Besançon
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19 × 19.2 cm (7 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.); Sheet: 20 × 21.5 cm (7 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27900
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...