The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1824 · Pen and brown ink and graphite and brush and gray and brown wash, with touches of red and ocher gouache, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid
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About this picture
The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome is a public-domain drawing by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, dated 1824. Pen and brown ink and graphite and brush and gray and brown wash, with touches of red and ocher gouache, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome” (1824) is drawn first. Ingres cared more about the precision of the line than about a loose patch of paint.
About the artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) was a French painter who defended precise line. His portraits and odalisques are tightly drawn, even when the anatomy is quietly adjusted.
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