Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a 19th-century French Neoclassical painter. His father, Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres, a painter and sculptor, encouraged his artistic inclinations. He was trained at the Academy of Toulouse, which he entered at the age of 11, then went to Paris in 1796 to study under David. He moved away from his classicism by his devotion to an ideal of beauty based on difficult harmonies of lines and colors. He painted portraits of friends as well as Pierre-François Bernier, whom he knew from Montauban. He won the Prix de Rome in 1801 on his second attempt, with The Ambassadors of Agamemnon. His work essentially covers three genres: historical painting, mainly during his Italian stay, portraits, even if he considered this genre minor during his youth, and female nudes.