Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (August 29, 1780 – January 14, 1867) was a French painter. His name is pronounced in French (i.e. final -es is not pronounced).

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He was born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. His father was a painter, sculptor and violinist, and taught the young Ingres in all these disciplines. The boy's talent for music seemed most promising at first — performance of a concerto of Giovanni Battista Viotti was applauded at the theatre of Toulouse. In 1791 he entered the Royal Academy of Arts in Toulouse where he studied art under Joseph Roques, sculpture under J. Vigan, and landscape painting under Briant.

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