Ingres’ violin or piano?
There is a French expression “Violon d’Ingres“. And now I know that it exists a piano d’Ingres too! May be some of you have seen the Stamaty family portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Anything surprising here? Yes, the piano! Isn’t it astonishing that Ingres, a music lover and a violin player himself, gives the piano a […]