Ingres dreamed very much to get it,
but at the insistence of David, the 1800 prize went to another of his pupils.
Upon completion of the course of study at the academy, seventeen-year-old Ingres goes to the capital,
where Jacques-Louis David becomes his teacher.
And yet, when the painting was finished,
someone said mistress Should be one, Mr. Ingres was in love with you, if you wrote".
But Ingres is quite fast away from blind
inheritance manners classics and his mentor gave a classic system a new breath, broadened and deepened it, making a better match to the needs and requirements of the changing era.