Editing Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (section)

==Pupils==
Ingres was a conscientious teacher and was greatly admired by his students.<ref>Tinterow, Conisbee et al. 1999, p. 281.</ref> The best known of them is [[Théodore Chassériau]], who studied with him from 1830, as a precocious eleven-year-old, until Ingres closed his studio in 1834 to return to Rome. Ingres considered Chassériau his truest disciple—even predicting, according to an early biographer, that he would be "the Napoleon of painting".<ref>Guégan et al. 2002, p. 168.</ref> 

By the time Chassériau visited Ingres in Rome in 1840, however, the younger artist's growing allegiance to the romantic style of [[Eugène Delacroix|Delacroix]] was apparent, leading Ingres to disown his favourite student, of whom he subsequently spoke rarely and censoriously. No other artist who studied under Ingres succeeded in establishing a strong identity; among the most notable of them were [[Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin]], [[Henri Lehmann]], and [[Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval]].<ref>Tinterow, Conisbee et al. 1999, p. 370.</ref>