# Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775), in Neoclassicism

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

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1810
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 29 5/8 x 22 7/8 in. (75.2 x 58.1 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.100.23
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-auguste-dominique-ingres), French, 1780–1867

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.

4 works in the collection.

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