Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: where to see him across these museums

A student of Jacques-Louis David, Ingres spent much of his career between Paris and Rome, where he twice directed the French Academy. He insisted that drawing, not colour, was the foundation of painting — a position that put him at odds with Delacroix for decades and made him, in his own eyes, the guardian of a classical tradition running back through Raphael.

He was as sought-after a portraitist as a history painter, and his treatment of the female nude — elongated, smoothed, sometimes anatomically impossible in service of the line — remains his most debated legacy. He taught extensively throughout his life, shaping a generation of French academic painters. He died in Paris in 1867.

Ingres paintings on display, museum by museum

Rooms and display status checked against each museum’s own collection database.

Listen to the commentary in the gallery

This list tells you where to look. In front of the actual painting, CulturAll adds the audio commentary: photograph the work or its label, listen, then ask your questions.