After a three-year expansion project, the Musée Ingres reopens its 19th-century building in Montauban, the birthplace of the French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, with a new display of its holdings of some 4,500 drawings and 44 paintings by the artist – as well as his personal violin. The museum has changed its name to the Musée Ingres Bourdelle, highlighting its extensive collection of sculptures by another Montauban native, and a pupil of Ingres, Antoine Bourdelle. Find out more from the museum’s website.
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Rendering of the expanded Musée Ingres Bourdelle

Rendering of the Bourdelle room

Study for Luigi Cherubini and the Museum of Lyric Poetry (c. 1834), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The Dream of Ossian (1813), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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