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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Early Works and Submissions to the Salon
Ingres early career was not particularly smooth.
In 1808 his initial version of Oedipus and the Sphinx was criticised as being flat and shadowless, while his Valpincon Bather was deemed insufficiently idealized. Although stung by this criticism he continued to study and paint in Rome, every year sending paintings back to the Academy in Paris for judgment.
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In 1811 he completed his final student work, the huge Jupiter and Thetis (1811, Musee Granet, Aix-en-Provence) which made a similar negative impression on the academy. The only artists who appreciated his talents were (ironically) Eugene Delacroix, and the other Romantic artists working under Pierre-Narcisse Guerin (1774-1833).
In 1819 Ingres sent his painting La Grande Odalisque (1814, Louvre) to be exhibited at the Paris Salon.
The subject, a concubine lying with her back to the viewer was influenced by the famous Venus of