It takes place in the early 19th century and revolves around an unknown, rumored painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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He has catalogued all the French Drawings in the museum, and authored and co-authored several books on artists including Ingres, Puvis de Chavannes and Claude Lorrain.
A portrait in the National Gallery, London of Jacques de Norvins by Ingres was painted in 1811–12 when the sitter was Napoleon's Chief of Police in Rome.
However, the simplicity with which Velázquez displays the female nude—without jewellery or any of the goddess's usual accessories—was echoed in later nude studies by Ingres, Manet, and Baudry, among others.
The museum's collections include European old master paintings, with works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Thomas Gainsborough, Frans Hals, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Adriaen van Ostade, among others, and 19th-century American paintings, including the well known murals by Robert Duncanson.