Odalisque with Slave

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Odalisque with Slave
French: L'Odalisque à l'esclave
ArtistJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Year1839 (1839)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions72.1 cm × 100.3 cm (28.4 in × 39.5 in)
LocationHarvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Odalisque with Slave (French: L'Odalisque à l'esclave) is an 1839 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres commissioned by Charles Marcotte. Executed in oil on canvas, it depicts a nude odalisque, a musician, and a eunuch in a harem interior. The painting is in the

Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a classic piece of Orientalism
in French painting.

History

Ingres painted a number of harem scenes during his long career, starting with the

tanbour were derived from engravings.[3]

Ingres labored over the execution with his usual great care, and enlisted some of his students as assistants. One of them was Raymond Balze, who wrote of his experience:

Ingres began his studies from nature and prepared the rough sketch on his canvas, then had made by his students the less important parts, very finished, such as the architecture, mosaics, rugs, furniture, instruments, which he often had [them] reposition, reluctantly [as he was] satisfied with their execution ... Then everything being finished with the figures, he alone undertook to harmonize the ensemble with onion skins of color.[4]

1842 version, in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

In September 1840 the painting was delivered to Paris, where it won praise from critics who viewed it in the owner's home. When exhibited publicly in 1845, the painting was widely admired, and written about by Baudelaire and Théophile Thoré-Bürger.[4]

Ingres made a second version in 1842 with the help of two of his students,

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, which is at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. In this version the background wall, described by art historian Karin Grimme as imprisoning the odalisque in "a room with no exit",[5] was replaced with a garden painted by Paul Flandrin, inspired by the park at the Château de Dampierre
.

The Louvre owns a carefully finished drawing Ingres made in 1858 that replicates the 1839 composition.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Boime 2004, p. 381.
  2. ^ Cohn and Siegfried 1980, p. 23.
  3. ^ a b Cohn and Siegfried 1980, p. 116.
  4. ^ a b Cohn and Siegfried 1980, p. 118.
  5. ^ Grimme 2006, p. 42.
  6. ^ Prat 2004, p. 90.

References

  • Boime, Albert (2004). Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815-1848. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    ISBN 0226063372
  • Cohn, Marjorie B.; Siegfried, Susan L. (1980). Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Univ.
    OCLC 6762670
  • Grimme, Karin H. (2006). Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867. Hong Kong:
    ISBN 3-8228-5314-3
  • Prat, Louis-Antoine (2004). Ingres. Milan: 5 Continents.
    ISBN 88-7439-099-8

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