The Source
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1856
The story
The Source is an oil painting on canvas by French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The work was begun in Florence around 1820 and not completed until 1856, in Paris. When Ingres completed The Source, he was seventy-six years old, already famous, and president of the École des Beaux-Arts. The pose of the nude may be compared with that of another by Ingres, the Venus Anadyomene (1848), and is a reimagination of the Aphrodite of Cnidus or Venus Pudica. Two of Ingres' students, painters Paul Balze and Alexandre Desgoffe, helped to create the background and water jar.
- Artist
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Date
- 1856
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
- Movement
- Neoclassicism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 163 × 80 cm
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