"Madame Moitessier" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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It took the French Neoclassical painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 12 years to complete this portrait of Madame Moitessier. Lizzie Perrotte takes a closer look at how Ingres combined contemporary society portraiture with elements of history painting – the academic ideal – to present Moitessier as a modern goddess of spring.

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Ingres Portraiture Neoclassicism Painting French Art Classical Illusionism History painting

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