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Genre
Documentary
Copyright
2005
Length
52 minutes
Producer(s)
François Bertrand, Camera Lucida Productions ; Catherine Derosier-Pouchous, Musée du Louvre
Co-producer(s)
France 3 Sud, Musée Ingres de Montauban
DVD edition
Musée du Louvre
Armide
Commercial distribution
Camera Lucida Productions
The painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres deliberately placed a violin among thousands of sketches and preparatory studies in the trunks of personal archives he bequeathed to his home town. A humble practice violin, patinated and worn. Was this really the instrument on which he played in the company of his musician friends Paganini, Gounod, and Liszt, sharing his second artistic passion with them? This film recounts the artist's life through his many connections with the world of music—the music he cherished, and which he described as the "balm" of his life.
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