Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique (1780-1867). French painter, born at Montauban, his father is a great painter and sculptor, Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres (1755-1814). He went to Paris in 1796 and became a fellow student of Gros in David's studio. He won a prize in 1801, but owing to the state of France's economy he was not awarded the usual stay in Rome until 1807. In the interval he produced his first portraits. --portraits of himself and his friends, and portraits of well-to-do clients which are characterized by purity of line and enamel-like coloring.

During his first years in Rome he continued to execute portraits and began to paint bathers, a theme which was to become one of his favorites. He remained in Rome when his four-year scholarship ended, earning his living principally by pencil portraits of members of the French colony. But he also received more substantial commissions, including two decorative paintings for Napoleon's palace in Rome.

In 1820 he moved from Rome to Florence for 4 years, commissioned for the cathedral of Montauban. Ingres stayed in Paris for the next ten years. In 1841 he returned to France. He was eartbroken when his wife died in 1849, but he made a successful second marriage in 1852, he died in 1863.