1815
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Sylvester (Douglas) Lord Glenbervie; Katherine Anne (North) Glenbervie; Frederic (North) Earl of Guilford; Frederic Sylvester Douglas is a 1815 ink by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sheet holds four quick sketches of people. Two women and two men sit or stand in simple poses. The lines are loose and sketchy, like a fast drawing. One woman wears a fancy hat and draped clothes. The men are in coats, one with a high collar, the other leaning back in a chair. The artist signed each sketch with the year 1815. These were made using a printing method that lets artists sketch directly onto stone. Next, look up lithography to see how this technique works.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic…
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