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| Ingres
began teaching at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1830, and in 1832 served as
vice-president of the prestigious school. That year he also undertook what has
become his most famous portrait. The sitter was Louis-François Bertin (1766–1841),
a powerful newspaperman, owner of the Journal des débats, and at the
time Ingres portrayed him, a key supporter of King Louis-Philippe's constitutional
monarchy. When this portrait was exhibited at the Salon of 1833, crowds marveled
at its naturalism, though many critics found fault with the restrained palette.
The painting, Ingres's first popular success as a portraitist, has come to symbolize
the rise of the unapologetically self-satisfied bourgeoisie.
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