Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French artist, born on August 29 in 1780, and died on January 14 in 1867 of pneumonia. He was born in the town of Montauban in Tarn-et-Garonne in France.  In his early schooling years, when he was 11 years old, he attended the Académie Royale de Peinture, Sculpture, et Architecture in Toulouse, France. He later became a student of Jacques-Louis David in Paris. Ingres was a Neoclassical painter, who followed the tenets of Academic art, but he was also known for his Romantic paintings. Some of his famous artworks include The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the Tent of Achilles (1801), Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne (1806), and The Valpinçon Bather (1808).