# Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775)

**Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres** (French, 1780–1867)  
ca. 1810  
Oil on canvas  
29 5/8 x 22 7/8 in. (75.2 x 58.1 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.100.23. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438818).

## About this work

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted this in about 1810, aged about 25. It is now at The Met in New York.

### 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: Paintings
- The artist was about 25
- Real size: about 30 × 23 in (75 × 58 cm). The 20 × 30 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: Men, Portraits
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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