Presentation by the château
A successful artist in the first half of the 19th century, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was an unclassifiable and often visionary painter. Behind his apparent classicism lies an originality and a quest for perfection that continue to fascinate.
How did this success come about? With the advent of the July Monarchy (1830-1848), Ingres found strong support in the Orléans family, enabling him to produce some of his greatest masterpieces. It is these close ties that will form the heart of Chantilly’s major exhibition: how the prince of artists became the artist of princes.
From national and international collections, paintings and drawings commissioned or collected by the Princes of Orléans will be brought together at Chantilly, alongside their studies and variants. They will provide an insight into the perfectionist and methodical work of one of France’s greatest painters.
New analyses of some of the artist’s most important masterpieces, as well as previously unpublished or rediscovered works, will shed new light on the unique personality of one of the great figures in the history of art.