(Montauban, France, 1780 - Paris, 1867) French painter. Last of the great painters of french neoclassicism, Ingres is however an ambiguous stance against the classicist tenets who lie within the germ of the romantic movement. He studied at Toulouse Academy before moving in 1797 to Paris, where he was a student of J. L. David. In 1801 he won the Prix de Rome with envoys of Achilles and Agamemnon, but was unable to go to Italy for political reasons and began working as a painter in Paris. Mainly he made private works as portraits and commissioned officers (Bonaparte, First Consul and Napoleon Emperor). In 1807 Ingres could finally settle in Rome, subsidized by the French government. In Rome he decored the palace of Napoleon. After a four-year stay in Florence from 1820, he returned to Paris. In 1824 Ingres opened a studion in Paris, where he worked tirelessly until his death. Only left the french capital for a short period (1835-1841) to manage the French Academy in Rome. In addition to major allegorical works and mythological paintings, Ingres painted portraits and works of nude female, who were his great expertise and those who have perpetuated his name. The Great Odalisque is a typical image of taste for the exotic and oriental themes in the moment.
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