Book Description
The graphic work of one of the most accomplished 19th-century French draftsmen is collected in this gallery display of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's portraits, sketches, and unfinished compositions. Prepatory drawings of such works as Oedipus and the Sphinx and the Turkish Bath as well as famous protraits of the Forestier, Stamaty, and Paganini families are included. The particularities of Ingres's vision and his drive to perfect his works are illustrated in the thousands of sketches he discarded in pursuit of an artistic ideal.


About the Author
Louis-Antoine Prat is a writer and an art historian who was awarded the Prix Mont Blanc for Culture in 2000. He is a project leader for the graphic arts department of the Louvre and a vice president of the Friends of the Louvre. He is a coauthor of the catalogues raisonnés of the drawings of Poussin, Watteau, and David and has curated for the Nicolas Poussin retrospective at the Grand Palais and the L'Empire du Temps exhibition at the Louvre.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The graphic work of one of the most accomplished 19th-century French draftsmen is collected in this gallery display of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's portraits, sketches, and unfinished compositions. Prepatory drawings of such works as Oedipus and the Sphinx and the Turkish Bath as well as famous protraits of the Forestier, Stamaty, and Paganini families are included. The particularities of Ingres's vision and his drive to perfect his works are illustrated in the thousands of sketches he discarded in pursuit of an artistic ideal.