ingres in English
noun
family name; Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French painte
Use "ingres" in a sentence
1. A painting of Ingres was suspended on the wall.
2. From Sam Rachamin, who traveled from Israel to try his hand at copying a work of Ingres, to 58-year-old professional house painter André Martin, who works on a landscape by Bernardo Bellotto, each Copyist has their own story to tell.
3. ‘All of modern art since the middle of the previous century had been based on rebellion against Academicism and Ingres was the painter most associated with Academicism.’ ‘The homespun quality of his materials and processes reveals, rather than masks, a keen formal and historical sensibility, while also serving his devastating wit and cold
4. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve introduced him to Courbet and he ordered a painting to add to his personal collection of erotic pictures, which already included Le Bain turc (The Turkish Bath) from Ingres and another painting by Courbet, Le Sommeil (The Sleepers), for which it is supposed that Hiffernan was one of the models.