Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, from Montauban, trained in Paris under Jacques-Louis David and won the Prix de Rome in 1801. He spent eighteen years in Rome and Florence, where Paris critics called his work bizarre and archaic, and he supported himself with pencil portraits of visitors. He wanted to be a history painter, but his portraits and nudes, with their pure contours and deliberate distortions, are his lasting achievement. Matisse and Picasso both learned from him.