Ingres

Ingres, Jean Dominique Auguste, was born at Montauban in 1780, and as a child showed great musical capabilities, but at the age of twelve developed a still stronger taste for painting. David took him as a pupil, and in 1801 he carried off the Grand Prix. The Bather, one of his best works. was produced in 1802, and he executed fine portraits of Napoleon both as First Consul and Emperor. From 1804 to 1824 he lived in Rome or Florence, and to this period belong his QHdipus and the Sph inx, Jupiter and Thetis, Xlrgil Reading the -Fneitl, Raphael and the Fornarina, Beath of Leonardo, Grande Odalisque, and many other fine paintings, including portraits. His genius, however, standing as it did half-way between the classical and romantic schools, was not fully recognised in France until 1824, when The Vote of Louis XIII. obtained his election to the Institute. He now returned to Paris, but went back to Rome as director of the French school there after ten years. Several fine works, but especially the Stratonice, won him so much praise that he came home once more in 1841, and continued to work till the day of his death in 1867.