Portrait of a Man
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
8 9/16 x 6 9/16 in. (21.8 x 16.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.125.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the refined world of Neoclassicism with Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' *Portrait of a Man*1814), a masterful graphite drawing now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. Created during Ingres' formative years in Rome—where he honed his craft after winning the prestigious Prix de Rome—this intimate portrait captures the artist's unwavering commitment to precision and classical amid the turbulent Napoleonic era. At just8 9/16 x6 9/16 inches, it exemplifies the portable, highly finished sheets that Ingres produced as independent works of art, often riv...
About the Artist
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1780–1867
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born on 29 August 1780 in Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne region of southern France, into a family with deep artistic and musical connections — his father was a painter, sculptor, and musician. He showed exceptional promise from childhood, enrolling at the Académie Royale in Toulouse where he studied under the sculptor Jean-Pierre Vigan, the landscape painter Je...