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Portrait of the Princess de Broglie, Apotheosis of Napoleon I. (1853); The Virgin (1854, variation of Virgin with Host), Ministry of State; Joan of Arc holding the Oriflamme (1854), Louvre; Virgin of Consolation (1856); La Source (1856), Louvre; Saint Germaine de Pibrac (1857), Church of Sapiac; Virgin of the Adoption (1857); Molière dining with Louis XIV. (copy at Comédie-Française), Birth of the Muses (water-colour), The Spring (1858); portraits of his second wife and of himself (1859), Uffizi, Florence; Interior of a Harem (1864); Portrait of Mlle. Flandrin (1866); Sketch of Stratonice (1867).—Merson, Ingres, sa vie et son œuvre (Paris, 1867); F. de la Genevais (de Mercey), Peintres et sculpteurs modernes (Paris, 1846); Ch. Blanc, Ingres et son œuvre; Delaborde, Ingres, sa vie et ses travaux (Paris, 1870); Chesneau, Peinture française au XIX. siècle (Paris, 1883); Perrier, Études, 15; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), ix. 343; (1861), x. 257; xi. 38; (1867), xxii. 105, 415; xxiii. 54, 193, 442; (1868), xxiv. 5, 340; xxv. 89, 228; (1870), iii. 112; iv. 495; Mirecourt, Ingres (Paris, 1858); Silvestre, L'Apothéose de M. Ingres (Paris, 1862); Rey, Biographie d'Ingres (Paris, 1867); Montrond, Ingres (Paris, 1869); Hamerton, French Painters; Macmillan's Mag., xxiv. 52; Contemporary Review, v. 458; Once a Week, xvi. 221; Art Journal (1867), 105, 151; L'Artiste (1867), i. 102; Zeitschr. f. b. K., ii. 170.


INKERMAN, RETURN FROM, Mrs. Elizabeth Butler, London; canvas. Scene—Soldiers returning over the crest of the hill after the battle of Inkerman. A straggling column of weary, wounded, and dying men, painfully marching along a rough hillside; to the right, slightly in advance, rides a young staff officer with a wounded bugler clinging to his stirrup to help himself along. Engraved by W. T. Davey.—Portfolio (1877), 100.



INMAN, HENRY, born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1801, died in New York, Jan. 17, 1846. Portrait, landscape, and genre painter, pupil of John W. Jarvis, in New York. In 1844 visited England, where he painted the portraits of Wordsworth, Dr. John Chalmers, Lord Chancellor Cottenham, Macaulay, and other noted men; among his American portraits are Bishop White, Chief Justice Marshall, Jacob Barker, and the two sons of Bishop Doane. Works: Rydal Falls—England; Newsboy; Rip Van Winkle; Boyhood of Washington; Ruins of Brambletye House (1876), Wm. E. Dodge, New York; Student, L. L. Stuart, ib.; October Afternoon; Portraits of Henry Rutgers and Fitz Greene Halleck (1828), Historical Society, New York. At the time of his death Inman was engaged on a series of historical pictures for the Capitol at Washington. His son, J. O'Brien Inman, genre painter, has lived in Rome since 1866; is an Associate of the National Academy, but rarely exhibits.


INN, THE (L'Estaminet), Jan Steen, Hague Museum; canvas, H. 2 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. 8 in. Twenty or more persons gathered in the tap-room of an inn, eating oysters, drinking, smoking, and playing trick-track. The upper part is covered with a large violet curtain, partly drawn up, beneath which is seen a balcony, and under that an elevated stage, on which a boy is lying down, blowing soap-bubbles. Sometimes erroneously called Picture of Human Life. Bout sale, Hague (1733), 515 florins; Benjamin d'Acosta sale, Hague (1764), 1,745 florins, to William IV. Engraved by Oortman in Musée français.—Reveil, x. 688.