Jean Auguste Dominique Introduction: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, a French "neoclassical" painter and an avant-garde of the "modern art", was born on August 29, 1780 in Montauban, Tarnet Garonne. His failed painter and sculptor father, Jean Marie Joseph Ingres, became Jean's first inspiration for music and drawing, although he could never lose himself. The animated artist created his first drawing... View more