INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
(b. 1780, Montauban, d. 1867, Paris)

François-Marius Granet

1809
Oil on canvas, 75 x 53 cm
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence

The painter François-Marius Granet enjoyed great success for his historical and interior scenes. In this painting he himself is the subject of one of the most intensely Romantic of all artist's portraits, painted by his friend Ingres.