How can the beauty of a figure be captured and expressed? How can tradition be melded with inventiveness? These questions, which bedeviled Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres throughout his formative years, imbue the 70 drawings, prints and paintings presented chronologically in the Orléans museum.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), Jean-Charles Auguste Simon, 1806, black chalk and shading with white highlights on cream wove paper, 42.2 x 37.7 cm/16.6 x 14.8 in. Orléans, Musée des Beaux-arts.
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