The Source (French: La Source) is an oil painting on canvas by French neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. The work was begun in Florence around 1820 and not completed until 1856, in Paris. When Ingres completed The Source, he was seventy-six years old, already famous, and president of the École des Beaux-Arts. The pose of the nude may be compared with that of another by Ingres, the Venus Anadyomene (1848), and is a reimagination of the Aphrodite of Cnidus or Venus Pudica. Two of… Read more...

About the author(s)

Author:

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Also known as:

J.A.D. Ingres

Jean-Dominique Ingres

JAD Ingres

Jean Auguste Ingres

Jean Dominique Auguste Ingres

Jean Ingres

Jean August Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres

J.-A.-D. Ingres

ז׳ן־אוגוסט־דומיניק אנגר

Zhan Ogi︠u︡st Dominik Ėngr

Z'an-Ogusṭ-Dominiḳ Engr

ז׳ן־אוגוסט־דומימניק אנגר

Zhan Ogiust Dominik Engr

Born:

29th Aug, 1780

Dead:

14th Jan, 1867

Country:

France

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French: [ʒɑnoɡyst dominik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy. Ingres was profoundly informed by past artistic traditions, and in his career assumed the role of a guardian of academic… Read more...