Editing Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (section)

==''Violon d'Ingres''==
Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave rise to a common expression in the French language, "''violon d'Ingres''", meaning a second skill beyond the one by which a person is mainly known.

Ingres was an amateur violin player from his youth, and played for a time as second violinist for the orchestra of Toulouse. When he was Director of the French Academy in Rome, he played frequently with the music students and guest artists. [[Charles Gounod]], who was a student under Ingres at the Academy, merely noted that "he was not a professional, even less a virtuoso". Along with the student musicians, he performed Beethoven string quartets with [[Niccolò Paganini]]. In an 1839 letter, [[Franz Liszt]] described his playing as "charming", and planned to play through all the Mozart and Beethoven violin sonatas with Ingres. Liszt also dedicated his transcriptions of the [[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|5th]] and [[Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)|6th]] [[Beethoven Symphonies (Liszt)|symphonies of Beethoven]] to Ingres on their original publication in 1840.<ref>''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 5th ed, 1954, Vol. V, p. 299: "Franz Liszt: Catalogue of Works".</ref>

The American avant-garde artist [[Man Ray]] used this expression as the title of a [[Le Violon d'Ingres|famous photograph]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=61240 |title=Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin) (Getty Museum) |publisher=Getty.edu |date=7 May 2009 |access-date=20 January 2014}}</ref> portraying [[Alice Prin]] (aka Kiki de Montparnasse) in the pose of the ''Valpinçon Bather'' with two [[Sound hole|f-holes]] painted on to make her body resemble a violin.