Roger Freeing Angelica (Ingres)

While riding near Brittany's coast Roger espies a beautiful woman, Angelica, chained to a rock on the Isle of Tears.

Comte de Blacas, the French ambassador to the Vatican, acquired the painting for King Louis XVIII.

Ingres executed the work with his usual care, and many preparatory drawings for the composition and the individual figures exist.

A painting of 1859, also in an oval format, repeats the figure of Angelica but nearly eliminates Roger, whose presence is indicated only by his shield visible at the right edge.

[6] In 1819 Ingres painted Perseus and Andromeda (Detroit Institute of Arts), which like Roger Freeing Angelica features a nude woman chained to a rock and a hero slaying a sea monster.