The Vow of Louis XIII
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The Vow of Louis XIII is an 1824 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, now in Montauban Cathedral. It shows a vow to the Virgin Mary by Louis XIII of France.
It was commissioned by France's Ministry of Interior in 1820 for the city of Montauban.[1] It was a critical success at the 1824 Salon and was later seen as representing Ingres as the main representative of classicism, in opposition to the romanticism represented at the same salon by The Massacres of Scio by Delacroix.[2] It marked Ingres' grand return to the Paris art world after his years in Rome and his abandonment of a more daring style. Charles X of France granted him the Légion d'honneur in reward for the painting.[2]
References
- ↑ (Robert Rosenblum 1986, p. 126)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 (Daniel Ternois 1980, p. 70)
Bibliography
- Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Paris, Fernand Nathan, 1980 (ISBN 2-09-284-557-8)
- Robert Rosenblum, Ingres, Paris, Cercle d'Art, coll. « La Bibliothèque des Grands Peintres », 1986 (ISBN 2-7022-0192-X)
