Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique

(8/29/1780 Montauban-1/14/1867 Paris) (France)

   Painter, draughtsman, and graphic artist. One of the most important artists of the first half of the 19th century, generally considered a major figure of Neo-Realism and Romanticism. Taught the basics of art by his father, then studied at the academy in Toulouse under history painter Rogues and sculptor Vigan. He entered the studio of Jacques Louis David and studied landscape painting with Briant. Numerous erotic works have been attributed to him.

   Reproductions: [Bathing scene]; 1864; Tilly, 1986: p. 36 . [Copy of 16th century Italian erotic print]; Spink, 1973: p. 163 . Couple enlace sur un lit; Neret, 2000: p. 102 [C]. Couple no enlace sur un lit; Neret, 2000: p. 108 [C]. Couple nu; Neret, 2000: p. 104 [C]. Couple nu faisant l'amour; Neret, 2000: p. 107 [C]. Cupid and Psyche; pen and ink; Smith, 1974: p. 52 [B]. Femme et Satyr; Neret, 2000: p. 113 [C]. Femme lutinee par l'amour; 1800-1806; Neret, 2000: p. 11 [C]. Femme nue allongee sur un lit; Neret, 2000: p. 109 [C]. Hermaphrodite tentant d'echapper a Salmacis; Neret, 2000: p. 100 [C]. Homme enlacant une femme par derriere; Neret, 2000: p. 102 [B]. Leda and the Swan; Neret, 2000: pp. 115-117 [C] / Smith, 1974: p. 51 [B]. Les trois femmes au bain; Neret, 2000: p. 111 [C]. [Lovers]; drawing; Smith, 1974 [B]. Man embracing a woman from behind; 1800-1806; Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 29 [C]. Mars embracing Venus; 1800-1806; Neret, 2000: p. 105 [C] / Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 34 [C]. Neptune jouissant de Thetis; Neret, 2000: p. 106 [C]. Nude couple; 1800-1806; Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 21 [C]. Nude couple making love; Erotic drawings, 2004: pp. 27, 31 [C] / Thomas, 2008: fig. 377 [C]. Odalisque with a slave; 1867; Bentley, 1984: 109 [C] / Lucie-Smith, 1972: 137 [C]. Ruggiero and Angelica; 1819; Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 213 [B]. Salmacis et Hermaphrodite; Neret, 2000: p. 101 [C]. Seated couple; 1800-1806; Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 33 [C]. Three women in bath; 1800-1806; Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 34 [C]. Turkish bath; oil; Smith, 1974: p. 49 [C] / Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 18 [B]. Union (Mars and Venus); 1800-1806; Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 36 [C] / Thomas, 2008 [C]. Woman caressed by cupid; 1800-1806; Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 23 [C].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 7: pp. 555 -560; John L. Connolly, "Ingres and the erotic intellect," in Woman as sex object: studies in erotic art, 1730—1970, edited by T. Hess and L. Nochlin (New York: Newsweek, 1972): pp. 16-31; DoA vol. 15: pp. 835-846; William Feaver, "Why all Ingres is erotic," ARTnews 105, 8 (September 2006): pp. 126-127; Carol Ockman, "Profiling homoeroticism: Ingre's 'Achilles receiving the Ambassadors of Agamemnon,'" Art Bulletin 75, 2 (June 1993): pp. 259+; Daniel Ternois, "L'eros Ingreque," Revue de Art 64 (1984): pp. 35-56; ThB XIX 1926: p. 2.