Ingres
Americannoun
noun
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He went several times to a show of portraits by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres at London’s National Gallery in 1999 and was greatly taken with the photographic quality of Ingres’ 19th century drawings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Competitors like Ingres, Ashton-Tate, Sybase, and Informix have come and gone, but Oracle remains the leader in this business, though SAP, IBM, and Microsoft also have significant shares.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
In the third gallery, 53 pencil-only drawings from 2021 have a delicacy reminiscent of Ingres and frequently seem to give glimpses of mountain ranges and forests.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
In a Joan Brown painting, a cat might sit pensively in the middle of a Kool-Aid-colored landscape and a woman with the body of a tiger might take the pose of an Ingres odalisque.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
I have named this one Torontodalisque: Homage to Ingres, because of the pose, and the rubber plant like a fan behind her.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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