1959 After Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres "Rome 1818", Vintage Hungarian Monochrome Print

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An excellent vintage monochrome print after pencil and white body wash drawing "The Forum Romanum" by French Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique … Read more An excellent vintage monochrome print after pencil and white body wash drawing "The Forum Romanum" by French Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 -1867). Signed in the print: "Ingres Rome 1818". Comes from a rare art folio published in Budapest in 1959. Printed on one side of high quality heavy paper. Very detailed. Foxing which you see on the images is in the print, on the original artwork, and not on this piece. Excellent condition - minor edge wear, never framed.

Image, 12.55"W x 6.70"H

Ingres became the principal proponent of French Neoclassical painting after the death of his mentor, Jacques-Louis David. His cool, meticulously drawn works constituted the stylistic antithesis of the emotionalism and colourism of the contemporary Romantic school. As a monumental history painter, Ingres sought to perpetuate the Classical tradition of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin. The spatial and anatomical distortions that characterize his portraits and nudes, however, anticipate many of the most audacious formal experiments of 20th-century Modernism. See less