# The Violinist Niccolò Paganini [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Pencil, 298 x 218 mm ## Commentary Ingres was a life-long proponent of the primacy of line over colour. His service to art lay in his abilities as a portraitist and as one of the most important draughtsmen of the century. His portrait drawings are remarkable for their psychological empathy and the enormous subtlety with which light and surface area are treated. Ingres, himself a talented violinist, drew a portrait of Niccolò Paganini - at that stage at the very beginning of his career - probably as a reminder of concerts the two friends had performed together. Listen to an <A HREF="08ingres.html" onClick="w=window.open \('/music/19\_cent/paganini/pagcamp.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=no,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=300'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">example</A> of Paganini's music. ## Related artworks - [Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing the Sword of Henri IV]() - [Double Portrait of Otto Magnus von Stackelberg and Jacob Linckh]() - [François-Marius Granet]() - [Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral]() - [Jupiter and Thetis]() - [Madame Moitessier]() - [Madame Rivière]() - [Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière]() - [Monsieur Bertin]() - [Monsieur Rivière]() - [Napoleon I on the Imperial Throne \(detail\)]() - [Napoleon I on the Imperial Throne]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()