biography
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Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique
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pronunciation:
[ĩgruh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1780–1867)
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| biography:
| Painter, the leading exponent of the Classical tradition in France in the 19th-c, born in Montauban, S France. He studied in Paris under David in 1796, and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; in 1801 he won the Prix de Rome. He then lived in Rome (1806–20), where he began many of his famous nudes, including ‘Baigneuse’ (1808, Louvre) and ‘La Source’ (1807, completed 1856, Musée d'Orsay). He became professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and director of the French Academy in Rome. He was made a senator in 1862. |
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