THE INGRES MEMORIAL
The Dellacos Ingres memorial has a long story. The colossi were originally intended to flank a significant railway cutting at the approaches to a station at Montauban, where Ingres was born, but the intervening Franco-Prussian war diverted the allocated funds.
Later, the railway was re-routed, bypassing his home town. Without much point, the whole project was left in a forgotten backwater. Attempts to revive the plan have failed repeatedly through lack of money, while Ingres' reputation fades.
The site is not marked on maps or satnav. Few people know it exists.
