Ingres and his students are little represented at the Musée des Augustins, partly because the Montauban Ingres Museum is so close by. Lehman, Amaury-Duval, the Flandrins, or Chassériau are not found in the collections. The two artists who are present were not part of the first student circle, although Pichon completed Tu Marcellus eris left unfinished by Ingres after the painting’s integration into the Musée des Augustins collection.

The chance to purchase a major work by Romain Cazes (1808-1881), a very active painter and decorator in the churches of Pyrenean Haute-Garonne, was therefore an opportunity not to be missed.

The other example of painting by a student of Ingres is the Portrait of the Countess Charles de Bertier de Sauvigny by Pichon (1805-1900). Pichon found inspiration in Ingres large portraits from the early 1850s, here demonstrated by the relationship between the model and the interior setting.