The Source (Ingres)

The Source (French: La Source) 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.^[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 Baize and Alexandre Desgoffe, helped to create the background and water jar.^[1]

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