Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was the great defender of Neoclassicism, a man who championed tradition and saw himself as the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the wild Romantics like Delacroix. He considered history painting the supreme genre and famously looked down on portraiture, a medium he grudgingly mastered to pay the bills. Rumor has it he found catharsis in painting a scene of another artist brandishing a pistol at a critic, a satisfying image for someone whose own work, like the famously long-backed *Grande Odalisque*, was often attacked for its "bizarre" anatomical distortions. This master of the pristine line was also a talented musician, giving us the French phrase "violon d'Ingres"—a term for a beloved hobby.
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