# Amédée-David, the Comte de Pastoret

**Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres** (French, 1780–1867)  
1823–26  
Oil on canvas  
103 × 83.5 cm (40 1/2 × 32 3/4 in.); Framed: 129.6 × 110.2 cm (51 × 43 3/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.452. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111317).

## About this work

This portrait by French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicts the young count Amédée-David de Pastoret at 32 years old. One of several paintings he commissioned from Ingres, the portrait highlights the nobleman’s status and swagger. Posing confidently in his finest garments and wearing a medal of the Order of the Legion of Honor, he gazes directly at the viewer with a stern expression.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted this in 1823–26, aged about 43. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

Portrait of white man dressed in all black with medallion and sword.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-auguste-dominique-ingres)

French, 1780–1867; born in Montauban; died in Paris

Ingres trained under Jacques-Louis David and won the Prix de Rome, then spent nearly two decades in Italy, absorbing Raphael above all. He became the champion of line and classical tradition against Delacroix’s Romanticism, and later directed the French Academy in Rome. Though he thought history painting his true calling, he is now most admired for his portraits, both his polished oils and the precise graphite drawings he made of visitors in Rome and Florence.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: France
- The artist was about 43
- Real size: about 41 × 33 in (103 × 83 cm). The 30 × 40 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: portraits, jewelry, gold (color), green (color), luxury, nobility, portraits: male subject, wealth
- Colour: black
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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