  About the Artwork
  
  
  Ingres's vulnerable figure of Andromeda is the "classic" idealized figure study. The fact that she is being rescued by Perseus, the hero of Greek mythology, from a horrible death in the fangs of a dragon is less important than her sublime and innocent beauty. The tight control of the paint and smooth surfaces, as well as the subject matter, attest to the position Ingres held as the champion of neoclassicism in France.
  
  
  Title
  Perseus and Andromeda
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. 1819
  
  Artist
  Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1780-1867
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  French
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 7 3/4 × 6 3/8 inches (19.7 × 16.2 cm)
  Framed: 12 7/8 × 11 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (32.7 × 28.6 × 6.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  European Painting
  
  
  Credit
  Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  70.170
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
