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Which paintings did Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres send from Rome to Paris in 1808?
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Self-portrait, oil on canvas by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1800; in the Condé Museum, Chantilly, France.
In 1808, while studying in Rome, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres sent two paintings back to Paris: The Valpinçon Bather and Oedipus and the Sphinx.1
Officials at the Ăcole des Beaux-Arts were notably disconcerted by these works, criticizing their linear severity and tonal sobriety.1