The Source | |
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La Source | |
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Artist | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Alexandre Desgoffe, Paul Balze ![]() |
Year | 1856 |
Medium | canvas, oil paint |
Dimensions | 163 cm (64 in) × 80 cm (31 in) |
Location | Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France |
Collection | Department of Paintings of the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay ![]() |
Accession No. | RF 219 ![]() |
Identifiers | Joconde work ID: 000PE001514 Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID: 20364924 |
The Source (French: La Source, meaning "spring") is an oil painting on canvas by French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The work was begun in Florence around 1820 and not completed until 1856, in Paris.[1][2] When Ingres completed The Source, he was seventy-six years old,[3] already famous,[4] and president of the École des Beaux-Arts.[5] The pose of the nude may be compared with that of another by Ingres, the Venus Anadyomene (1848),[6] and is a reimagination of the Aphrodite of Cnidus or Venus Pudica.[5] Two of Ingres' students, painters Paul Balze and Alexandre Desgoffe, helped to create the background and water jar.[1]
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