 The following year Ingres sought to <unk> on the success of his Bertin portrait . He showed his ambitious history painting The Martyrdom of Saint <unk> at the 1834 Salon , but it was harshly criticised ; even Ingres ' admirers offered only faint praise . <unk> and frustrated , Ingres declared he would <unk> the Salon , abandon his residence in Paris for Rome , and relinquish all current positions , ending his role in public life . This <unk> was not to last . 
