Where can you see Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in Paris?

At the Louvre Museum: La Grande Odalisque, The Valpinçon Bather and The Turkish Bath. At the Musée d'Orsay: The Source. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's most famous work in Paris?

La Grande Odalisque, of 1814, at the Louvre Museum. A woman of the harem seen from behind, turning to look at you. Painted for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon, and mocked at the time for its anatomy.

When and where was Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born?

On 29 August 1780, at Montauban, France. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres died on 14 January 1867, at Paris, France, aged about 87.

What is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres known for?

Painted the Grande Odalisque in 1814. The great rival of Delacroix. Finished the Turkish Bath at eighty-two. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French painter, of Neoclassicism.

Painter, 1780 to 1867

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Ingres believed drawing was everything, and bent anatomy to suit it. His odalisque has several vertebrae too many, and nobody has ever minded.

Born: 1780, Montauban, France
Died: 1867, Paris, France
Movement: Neoclassicism
In Paris: 4 works in 2 museums

Where to see Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in Paris

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Louvre Museum3 works

La Grande Odalisque
1814
A woman of the harem seen from behind, turning to look at you. Painted for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon, and mocked at the time for its anatomy.
The Valpinçon Bather
1808
A seated nude, her back to the viewer, in a room of white linen and green curtain. Ingres returned to this back for the rest of his life.
The Turkish Bath
1862
A round canvas crowded with bathers, the Valpinçon back among them, painted when he was eighty-two.

Musée d'Orsay1 work

The Source
1856
A standing girl pouring water from a jar, begun in Florence in 1820 and finished thirty-six years later. It was one of the most admired pictures of its century.

The life of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Ingres was born in Montauban in 1780 and was a pupil of David. He spent much of his life in Rome and thought of himself as the guardian of the classical tradition against the Romantics, with Delacroix as his opposite. His portraits, drawn and painted, are among the finest of the century.

He painted the Turkish Bath at the age of eighty-two, and signed it with his age. He died in Paris in 1867. The painters who learned most from his line were the ones he would have understood least: Degas, Matisse and Picasso.

What to know

Painted the Grande Odalisque in 1814
The great rival of Delacroix
Finished the Turkish Bath at eighty-two

Born: 29 August 1780, Montauban, France
Died: 14 January 1867, Paris, France

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: common questions

Where can you see Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in Paris?: At the Louvre Museum: La Grande Odalisque, The Valpinçon Bather and The Turkish Bath. At the Musée d'Orsay: The Source. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's most famous work in Paris?: La Grande Odalisque, of 1814, at the Louvre Museum. A woman of the harem seen from behind, turning to look at you. Painted for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples and sister of Napoleon, and mocked at the time for its anatomy.
When and where was Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born?: On 29 August 1780, at Montauban, France. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres died on 14 January 1867, at Paris, France, aged about 87.
What is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres known for?: Painted the Grande Odalisque in 1814. The great rival of Delacroix. Finished the Turkish Bath at eighty-two. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French painter, of Neoclassicism.