1825
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Odalisque is a 1825 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a woman lying on her side, turned away from us, wearing loose pants and a headscarf. Ingres made this as a print to copy an earlier painting, but he was still learning how to carve stone for printing. The lines are so clean it looks like ink on paper, not a scratchy lithograph. If you like how he draws fabric and skin, look up the technique called *sfumato*.
Ingres executed this lithograph to reproduce and publicize an important picture that he had previously painted. However, the lithograph also represents experimentation with an unfamiliar medium, but the artist's assured draftsmanship makes the print successful.
The female nude seen here represented Ingres's conception of ideal beauty.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic…
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