In the course of a lifetime that stretched from 1780 to 1867. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was reviled and honored and reviled again, but he scorned both tribute and taunt. "I took the road of the masters." he told his students. "That is what I did, gentlemen; I took the road of Raphael." This week 73 of his masterly drawings and paintings went on display at Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg Gallery, thus bringing together for the first time the bulk of Ingres' works owned by U.S. museums and collectors. The gallery professed itself pleasantly...
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