Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867) The French painter Ingres, the son of an unsuccesful painter and sculptor, was born at Montauban. After an early academic training in the Toulouse academy he went to Paris in 1796 and entered the studio of the neoclassical painter Jacques Louis David in 1797 and won the Prix de Rome in 1801. From 1806 to 1820 he painted in Rome, where he developed his ...