Fingering Ingres

Susan Siegfried is Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds. She is the author of The Art of Louis-Leopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France (1995) and has published widely on aspects of late eighteenth and nineteenth century art. She is currently writing a book on Ingres that explores the formal tensions and the psychic and social resonances of his work. She also worked at the J. Paul Getty Trust developing policies on information technology for the arts and humanities. Adrian Rifkin is editor of Art History.