Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Portrait of Madame de Senonnes
1814
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Dream of Ossian
1813
oil on canvas
(commissioned for Napoleon's chamber
at the Quirinal Palace in Rome)
Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Portrait of Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d'Orléans
1843
oil on canvas
Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, Perpignan

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Portrait of architect Jean-Baptiste Desdéban
1810
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Aretino receiving the Envoy of Charles V
1848
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Académie
1801
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Studies for Christ among the Doctors
1862
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Studies for The Apotheosis of Homer
1827
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for The Martyrdom of St Symphorien
ca. 1834
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for The Martyrdom of St Symphorien
ca. 1834
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for The Martyrdom of St Symphorien
ca. 1834
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for The Martyrdom of St Symphorien
ca. 1834
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for
The Martyrdom of St Symphorien
ca. 1834
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for Romulus victorious over Acron
(soldier lifting corpse)
ca. 1812
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Bather
1864
watercolor on paper
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
 Study of Model
1797
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne

Chorus of the daughters of Danaus:

O King of Kings, O most blest 

of the blest, O power most perfect

of the perfect, Zeus giver of prosperity,

listen to us, and in thorough loathing

of those vicious men keep them away from your descendants:

cast into the purple-coloured sea

the black ship on whose thwarts sits our ruin!

Look favourably on the woman's point of view,

and renew the tale told long ago 

of your kindness to the woman you loved,

the ancestress of our race.

Toucher of Io, remember it all!

We claim to be of the race of Zeus,

springing from an inhabitant of this land.

I have come and halted on the old tracks,

the place where my mother was watched as she browsed on the flowers,

the cattle-pasture meadow, from whence Io,

driven by the gadfly,

fled in frenzy,

passing through many tribes

of men; and she cleaved

the waves of the strait, in accordance

with destiny, and thus defined the boundary

of the land on its distant side;*

and she rushed through the land of Asia,

from end to end of sheep-rearing Phrygia,

and passed through the Mysian city of Teuthras

up the vales of Lydia

and through the mountains of Cilicia,

speeding across the land of the Pamphylians,

its ever-flowing rivers

and its deep rich soil; and the land

of Aphrodite, abundant with wheat.

And she arrived, while the winged cowherd

was still piercing her with its sting,

in the plain of Zeus,** rich in all kinds of pasture,

the snow-fed meads*** over which flows

the might of the Nile

and the water untouched by the plagues of Typhos,****

maddened by undeserved sufferings,

and agonies inflicted by the hurtful sting,

a maenad of Hera.*****

– Aeschylus, from Suppliants (ca. 470-460 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)

*the strait across which Io swam came to be called the Bosporus ('strait of the cow') in memory of her passage, and regarded as the boundary between Europe and Asia

**Egypt, or perhaps more specifically the Nile delta

***its was believed that the Nile's floods were fed by melting snow

****i.e. free of storms

*****i.e. driven into frenzy by Hera as bacchic maenads are by Dionysus