Ingres

The last of the French neoclassical painters, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1860), invented an atypical and mannerist canon of feminine beauty that made her famous. His masterpiece is La Grande Odalisque (1814), inscribed as much in the history of Orientalism as in the tradition of the great masters of Western painting. Skillful draughtsman, an admirer of Raphaël, and follower of the pure line, Ingres was of such an influence that one speaks of "ingrism" or "ingresque period" when other artists, like Pablo Picasso, came to get some inspiration from him.