Title of Artwork: “The Vow of Louis XIII”
Artwork by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Year Created 1824
Summary of The Vow of Louis XIII
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Vow of Louis XIII, presently hangs in Montauban Cathedral. It reveals a promise made by Louis XIII of France to the Virgin Mary. It is a 421 x 262 centimetre oil painting on canvas.
All About The Vow of Louis XIII
For the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Montauban, it was commissioned in August 1820 by the Ministry of Interior. Louis XIII’s 1638 promise to dedicate his country to the Virgin in Her Assumption was to be the subject of the artwork. Ingres accepted the commission while he was living in Florence at the time of his acceptance.
In spite of his success as a portrait painter, his long-term goal was to become known for his work in the more renowned genre of historical art. He got right to work, and it took him four years to finish the big canvas with his customary tenacity.
In October of that year, he took it with him to Paris. As a result of its critical acclaim at the Salon that year, it came to embody classicism in juxtaposition to Delacroix’s The Massacres of Scio, which was viewed as romanticism.
It heralded Ingres’ spectacular return to the Paris art community following his years in Rome and Florence, and his abandonment of a more adventurous manner, in a Raphaelesque style relatively free of the archaisms for which he had previously been reproached.
Ingres became a national hero in France. Charles X bestowed the Cross of the Légion d’honneur on him in January 1825, and he elected him to the Institute in June of the same year.
Information Citations
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