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 dressed in fancy 1800s clothes. The top two are a woman in a big hat and a man in a loose coat, both sitting. The bottom two show a younger man in a high-collared coat and an older man in a long jacket, both facing forward. The lines are light and sketchy, like someone jotting down ideas fast. The artist signed each one in the corner with "Ingres 1815," showing these were done the same year. The names under each portrait hint at family ties—some share last names, suggesting they might be related. Next, check out lithography to see how artists used this early printing trick to spread portraits like these.
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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