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THE TASTE OF OUR TIME
MONOGRAPHS
FRA ANGELICO - BOSCH - EL GRECO
PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA - BOTTICELLI
GIOTTO -CARPACCIO- BRUEGEL-GOYA
VELAZQUEZ - REMBRANDT - MANET
DEGAS- CEZANNE - RENOIR - GAUGUIN
LAUTREC - VAN GOGH - ROUAULT
MONET- MODIGLIANI- MATISSE - DUFY
PICASSO - CHAGALL - KLEE - BRAQUE
LEGER - MIRO- CHARDIN - KANDINSKY
BONNARD - DiJRER - COROT - VERMEER
FRAGONARD - INGRES
Forthcoming
POUSSIN
THE GREAT ART REVOLUTIONS
ROMANTICISM
IMPRESSIONISM (z VOLUMES)
CUBISM - FAUVISM - SURREALISM
Forthcoming
COURBET AND REALISM
FAMOUS PLACES
AS SEEN BY GREAT PAINTERS
MONTMARTRE - VENICE
PARIS IN THE PAST
PARIS IN OUR TIME
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Jupiter and Thetis (detail), 1811.
Musce Granet, Aix-en-Provence.
The Casino of Raphael in Rome.
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.
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CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY
1775 Joseph Ingres of Toulouse moves to nearby Montauban and
setsupasasculptorand decorator. There,onAugust 12, 1777,
he marries Anne Moulet, a native ofthe region.
1780 August 29. Birth of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the
eldest ofseven children.
1784 David's "Oath ofthe Horatii."
1789-1791 Drawling lessons from his father, who also teaches him
to sing and play the violin.
1791 Birth ofGericault.
1791-1797 Studies art at Toulouse under the landscape painter
Jean Briant at the Museum du Midi, the painter Joseph
Roques attheAcademiedesArts, andthesculptorJean-Pierre
Vigan w^ho gives him board and lodging. He leaves Toulouse
with a testimonial from his teachers "Thisyoung art student
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will one day do credit to his country, judging by the high pro-
mise ofthe work he is already producing."
1796 Birth ofCorot.
1797 He goesto Paris andentersDavid's studio.
1798 Birth ofDelacroix.
1800 He obtains second place in the Prix de Rome competitions,
firstprizegoingtoJean-PierreGranger,David'sfavoritepupil.
1800 David's portrait ofMadame Recamier.
1801 AwardedthePrixdeRomeforhis "AchillesandAgamemnon's
Envoys."
1801 Gerard's "Ossian evoking the Spirits" and Girodet's "Apo-
theosis oftheFrenchWarriors"forthe ChateaudeMalmaison.
1801-1806 Prevented bypolitical eventsfrom goingto Rome, Ingres
works on in Paris, in close touch with Gros, Girodet, Granet,
and Bartolini. His first portraits: Bonaparte as First Consul,
Gilibert, Bartolini, the Riviere family, "La Belle Zelie,"
drawings ofthe Forestier family.
1806 September. Leaves Paris for Italy, traveling by way of Turin,
Milan, Bologna and Florence, reaching Rome on October 11.
1806-1810 Resident at the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici).
Familiarizes himself with the Vatican collections and the Sis-
tine Chapel. Paints "Oedipus and the Sphinx," "La Baigneuse
de Valpin^on," "Jupiter and Thetis," and the portraits of
Granet and Madame Devau9ay.
i8o8 Birth ofDaumier.
1810-1820 His term ofstudy at the Villa Medici comingto an end in
1810, he decides to remainin Rome and takes rooms at No. 40
Via Gregoriana. He paints "Romulus Vanquisher of Acron"
and "Ossian's Dream" for the imperial palace ofMontecavallo
on the Ouirinal, "Virgil reading the Aeneid" for the Villa
Aldobrandini where the governor ofRome resides, the "Large
Odalisque," "Roger delivering Angelica" and "Christ giving
St Peterthe Keys ofParadise." Manyportraits (ofhighFrench
officials, of Madame de Senonnes) and countless drawings.
In 1814 he goes to Naples to paint the portraits of the Murat
family. This same year he marries Madeleine Chapelle, a
milliner from Gueret in central France.
1814 Birth ofMillet.
1819 Gericault's "Raft ofthe Medusa."
Birth ofChasseriau.
Birth ofCourbet.
1820-1824 Lives in Florence, moving there from Rome so as to be
near his old friend, the sculptor Bartolini. Portraits of Barto-
lini, of Count Gouriev, of Monsieur and Madame Leblanc.
From 1821 to 1824 he works on "The Vow of Louis XIII."
1823 Death ofPrud'hon.
1824 Birth ofPuvis de Chavannes.
Death ofGericault.
Delacroix's "Massacres ofChios."
1824-1825 Ingres returns to Paris forthe Salon, where his "Vow of
Louis XIII" (exhibited at the same time as Delacroix's
"Massacres of Chios") is admired and praised. This success
silences his critics andestablisheshis reputation.Awardedthe
CrossoftheLegionofHonorandelectedamemberofthe Insti-
tut,receiving eighteenvotes against seventeen forHoraceVer-
net.HeopensaschoolintheRuedesMarais(nowRueVisconti).
1825 Death ofDavid.
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1826-1834 He paints "The Apotheosis of Homer" (1826-1827),
aceiling panelforthe CharlesXMuseumintheLouvre. Works
on "TheMartyrdom ofSt Symphorian," begunin 1824 and not
finished until 1834: it is unfavorably criticized when shown at
the Salon. Portraits of Monsieur Bertin and Count Mole.
Disappointed by the failure of what he regards as his major
work to date, he applies for the post of director of the French
Academy in Rome.
1826 Birth ofGustave Moreau.
1827 Corot's "Bridge ofNarni."
183 Delacroix's "The Barricade."
1832 Birth ofManet.
1834 Birth ofDegas.
Daumier's "Massacre in the Rue Transnonain."
1835-1841 Back in Rome as head of the French Academy, Ingres
leads a busy life at the Villa Medici, repairing the buildings,
improving the gardens, forming a library, setting up courses
in archaeology, receiving famous visitors (Liszt, Lacordaire).
Few pictures from this period: "Antiochus and Stratonice,"
"Odalisque with a Slave."
1835 Death ofGros.
1839 Birth ofCezanne.
1840 Birth ofMonet,
1841 Triumphalreturnto Paris,wherehis admirers offerabanquet
inhishonor (426 guests), presidedbythe Marquis de Pastoret.
Berlioz gives aconcertinhishonor. Louis-Philippeinviteshim
to Versailles and gives a dinner-party for him at the Chateau
de Neuilly.
1841 Birth ofRenoir.
1843-1847 Decorates the great hall ofthe Chateau de Dampierre for
the Due de Luynes, but leaves "The Golden Age" unfinished
and does no more than sketch out "The Iron Age."
1848-1849 AppointedamemberoftheArtsCouncilunderthe short-
lived Second Republic,he calls for the suppression ofthejury
and permission for all painters to exhibit freely at the Salon.
Resigns in May 1849.
1848 Birth ofGauguin.
1849 Deathofhis wifeinJuly. Inhis griefIngres seeks comfortwith
his friends the Reisets at Enghien, then with the painter
Flandrin, and finally stays for a time with his old friend
Marcotte. Leaves his apartment at the Institut and moves to
27 rue Jacob.
1850 Travels in Normandy (Avranches, Bayeux, Caen) and the isle
ofJersey.
1851 His first donation to the Montauban museum.
1851 Courbet's "Funeral at Ornans" at the Salon.
1852 He marries Delphine Ramel, a lady offorty-three. Every year
from now on he spends the summer at Meung-sur-Loire.
1853 Birth ofVan Gogh.
1855 HeexhibitsoversixtypicturesattheParisWorld'sFair. Inthe
awarding of prizes, he receives only a second-class medal of
honor, first prize going to Horace Vernet. But he alone, as an
exceptional distinction, is nominated by the Emperor grand
officer of the Legion of Honor.
1856 Death ofChasseriau.
1859 Birth ofSeurat.
i860 Returning to Paris from Italy, Degas draws and paints under
the influence ofIngres.
1861 Highly successful exhibition of his drawings in Paris.
1861 Puvis de Chavannes exhibits "War" and "Peace" at the Salon.
1862 Ingres exhibition at Montauban. The Emperor Napoleon III
makes him a senator, then a member ofthe Imperial Council
ofPublic Instruction.
1863 Ingres finishes "The Turkish Bath."
1863 Death ofDelacroix.
Manet's "Dejeuner sur I'Herbe" exhibited at the Salon des
Refuses, a special showing of pictures refused by the official
Salon.
Cezanne visits the Salon des Refuses.
1864 Birth ofToulouse-Lautrec.
Gustave Moreau's "Oedipus and the Sphinx" exhibited at
the Salon.
1867 On January 8 Ingres makes a drawing of Giotto's "Christ in
the Tomb," invites a few friends to dinner, provides a musical
entertainment, and catches a chill when seeing his friends off.
Dies on January 14 at 1 a.m. Buried at the Pere-Lachaise
cemetery in Paris.
The greater part of his collections and all the works stored in
his studio (over 4000 drawings) are bequeathed to the city of
Montauban.
Ingres retrospective exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts,
Paris.
1867 Birth ofBonnard.
