Vow of Louis XIII
work by Ingres
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discussed in biography
- In Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Maturity
… (1820), and then again in The Vow of Louis XIII (1824), a blatant piece of pro-Bourbon propaganda celebrating the union of church and state. This picture was a spectacular success at the 1824 Salon, earning Ingres his first critical accolades as well as election to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Thus,…
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