Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

• Was a French Neoclassical painter.
• Ingres devoted much of his attention to the training of the painting students, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
• He re-organized the Academy, increased the size of the library, added many molds of classical statues to the Academy collection.
• He traveled to Orvieto (1835), Siena (1835), and to Ravenna and Urbino to study the paleochristian mosaics, medieval murals and Renaissance art.
• He devoted considerable attention to music, one of the subjects of the academy; he welcomed Franz Liszt and Fanny Mendelssohn.
• He formed a long friendship with Liszt.
• He joined the music students and his friend Niccolò Paganini in playing Beethoven's violin works.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Laurence-Augustine Jubé Héquet, Ingres as a Young Man, ca. 1850–60.
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