Studio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES (French, first half of the 19th century)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES, born August 29, 1780 in Montauban and died January 14, 1867 in Paris, is a neo-classical French painter. From 1825, until his departure for Italy in 1834, when he became director of the Academy of France in Rome, INGRES has a private workshop in Paris, close to the School of Fine Arts , where his many students venerate him as an undisputed leader: Henri LEHMANN, Raymond BALZE, Hippolyte FLANDRIN, Victor MOTTEZ, Theodore CHASSERIAU, who "betray" INGRES for DELACROIX... 256 students were trained by INGRES. This "studio" is part of the tradition of the great workshops that counted in the history of painting: that of REMBRANDT, that of DAVID, paradoxical crucibles where the personality of the master is forged by contact with his students.
INGRES promotes the primacy of drawing, the work with models, advises his students to copy RAPHAEL or TITIAN, but not RUBENS, he makes them discover the Italian artists cited by VASARI, wishes to develop at his studia the taste for mural painting, that he himself practiced little at Dampierre, at the cost of great difficulties.
INGRES promotes the primacy of drawing, the work with models, advises his students to copy RAPHAEL or TITIAN, but not RUBENS, he makes them discover the Italian artists cited by VASARI, wishes to develop at his studia the taste for mural painting, that he himself practiced little at Dampierre, at the cost of great difficulties.