Definition of Ingres

1. Noun. French classical painter (1780-1867).

Exact synonyms: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Generic synonyms: Painter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingres

Infobahn
Information Age
Information exchanges
Inga edulis
Inga laurina
Inge
Inger
Ingerman
Ingersollian
Ingland
Inglistan
Ingmar Bergman
Ingram
Ingres (current term)
Ingria
Ingrian
Ingrid
Ingrid Bergman
Ingush
Ingush Autonomous Oblast
Ingushes
Ingushetia
Ingvaeonic
Inigo Jones
Initialwörter
Injun
Inka
Inklings

Literary usage of Ingres

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Ingres had been friendly with a Florentine sculptor named Bartolini, and was strongly attracted by the works of the early Renaissance period, ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"Ingres himself was sorely tempted ; but his wife, jealous of the artist's honour, ... Better for Ingres to be poor and free, than well-paid and in chains. ..."

3. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"Ingres was installed in the Château with his wife, and Madame Ingres took a remark made ... Ingres, susceptible as a Spaniard, and already irritated by the ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"On his return Ingres was received at Montauban with enthusiastic homage, ... From this date up till r 834 the studio of Ingres was thronged, ..."

5. A.L.A. Portrait Index: Index to Portraits Contained in Printed Books and by American Library Association (1906)
"Ingres, Mme Anne (Moulet) mother of artist. GAZ. d. beaux arts (1898) ser. 3, 20:93. ... PINSET et d'Auriac, Hist, du por. en France (1884) 221. Ingres des. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"A portrait of the purchaser of Stratonice was one of the first works executed after this return ; and Ingres shortly afterwards began the decorations of the ..."

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