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Jean-Pierre Sudré

Grand Odalisque, 1826

Description

Maker

  • Marino Bove, printer
  • Jean-Pierre Sudré, 1783-1866, French
  • Noel Ainé et Cie, publisher
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867, French

Title

Grand Odalisque

Year

1826

Medium

Lithograph on chine collé on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight Oriental tissue paper laid down on medium weight cream wove paper (chine collé)

Dimensions

Plate: 36.5 x 48.6 cm (14 3/8 x 19 1/8 inches) (including inscription)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

76.036

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses

November 12, 2010 - June 6, 2011

The turban, peacock-feather fan, and the hookah pipe on the far left indicate that this woman is an odalisque, a slave or concubine within the harem of a Turkish sultan. For Jean- Auguste-Dominque Ingres and many of his contemporaries, such exotic settings and subjects provided valuable opportunities to depict an erotically charged nude female body. By purchasing this high-quality reproductive print, male audiences in Western Europe could indulge in popular but inaccurate fantasies of life in the Near East, a world of which Ingres had no direct knowledge. The 1814 painting on which this print is based was created in Rome using life drawings from hired models, and the odalisque’s face is based on a much-admired portrait by Raphael, demonstrating Ingres’s admiration for Renaissance painting.

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