Exhibition: "Ingres, the artist and his princes

A successful artist of the first half of the 19th century, Ingres was an unclassifiable and often visionary painter. Behind his apparent classicism lies a unique freedom and style that still fascinates today.

With the advent of the July Monarchy (1830-1848), Ingres found in the Orléans family a strong support and a favourable environment that allowed him to produce some of his greatest masterpieces.

Coming from national and international collections, paintings and drawings commissioned or collected by the Princes of Orleans will be brought together in Chantilly, alongside their studies and variants. They will allow us to understand the long and methodical work of one of the greatest French painters, an artist of princes and prince of artists.