PARIS — Who exactly was Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -- a reactionary or a modernist visionary? His Romantic contemporaries scorned his painting as too cold, too academic and too traditional. And yet ...

The city of Montauban in southern France is the birthplace of the painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) and the sculptor Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929). Its star museum, formerly ...

Louise d’Haussonville arrived in Pasadena the other day, and it’s always good to see her. Always strange too. One of the greatest portraits by one of the greatest portrait painters -- French genius ...

TODD PORTERFIELD AND SUSAN L. SIEGFRIED Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 48 color ills., 82 b/w. $55.00 A few years ...

Georges Vigne walks through the streets of Montauban, deep in conversation with his little dog and his beloved. Sometimes they do a little dance, sometimes they sing songs to keep their spirits up.

In Man Ray's most famous photograph, 'Le Violon d'Ingres', the surreal, the sexual, and the French Neoclassical combine. Man Ray, Le violon d’Ingres (1924). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bluff ...