Ingres: D'Après Une Correspondance Inédite (Classic Reprint)

by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Excerpt from D'Après une Correspondance Inédite Aujourd'hui, que les cartons d'ingres ont eté vidés et ses croquis mis sous les veux du public dans des expositions ou reproduits dans des ouvrages, il importe que les tiroirs s'ouvrent à leur tour et que les lettres viennent enfin compléter l'enseignement donné par cette conscience artistique. Le voeu est trop légitime pour n'ètre pas exécuté tôt ou tard et la mémoire d'lngres y gagnera la consécration qu'a déjà trouvée celle de Delacroix à la publication de sa correspondance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

718 pages, Paperback

Published August 22, 2018

About the author

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Picasso, Matisse and other modernists.