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Why could Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres not travel to Rome immediately after winning the Prix de Rome?
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Self-portrait, oil on canvas by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1800; in the Condé Museum, Chantilly, France.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was unable to travel to Rome immediately after winning the Prix de Rome in 1801 because the French treasury was strained by the costs of Napoleonâs wars. Consequently, the government could not afford to fund his scholarship at the AcadĂ©mie de France in Rome at that time.12
Due to this economic situation, Ingres was forced to remain in Paris, where he continued to paint and establish himself as a portraitist before finally departing for Italy in 1806.12