Ingres has been spoken of as an ancient Greek lost and bewildered in our modern times. Such a view of his character is misleading. Like all the great creators, he expressed the aspirations of his race and his times. He was not only the child of his century and his country, but he represented them both in their classic reaction and in their impulse towards Romanticism. But the two tendencies were so nicely balanced in his temperament that he offended the extremists of both parties. He paid in his lifetime for his detachment from parties, for his exalted aims and sublime courage, but he reaps his reward from posterity. The creator of the immortal figures of Œdipus, the Odalisque, Angelica, Stratonice, and the Source to-day takes unquestioned rank among the great masters not only of French but of European art. BIBLIOGRAPHY The authoritative French accounts of Ingres’ life and work (from which the foregoing sketch has been compiled) are:-- _Comte Henri Delaborde._--Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870). _Charles Blanc._--Ingres (1870). _Henry Lapauze._--L’Œuvre de Ingres (in “Melanges sur l’Art Français,” 1905). _Jules Momméja._--Ingres (“Les Grands Artistes” series). _T. de Wyzewa._--L’Œuvre peint de Jean-Dominique Ingres (1907). _Boyer d’Agen._--Ingres d’apres une Correspondence inédite (1909). The plates are printed by BEMROSE & SONS, LTD., Derby and London The text at the BALLANTYNE PRESS, Edinburgh End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ingres, by A. J. Finberg