Sleeping Odalisque

Artwork: A Sleeping Odalisque

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Created: c. 1810-1830

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: estimate (29.8 x 47.6 cm)

Location: V&A Museum, London, UK

Photography credit: @art_love_enjoy_life

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“Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was born in Montauban. He studied with local painters in Toulouse before entering the Paris studio of David (1748-1825) in 1797. He was soon considered as the champion of the French classical tradition of history painting, traditionally opposed to the art of Delacroix in the early 19th century. Ingres was awarded the prix the Rome in 1801 and alternated long sojourns in Italy and Paris from 1806 but spent the last 9 years of his life in Paris where he died age 87. His oeuvre also includes portraits paintings which represent a good testimonial of the 19th-century French high society.

This painting was probably a preparatory study for one of Ingres’ Odalisques a prototype of female reclining nude which recurs in several composition. The precise painting for which it was a study is still subject to debate as well as the dating.

However it was probably made in Rome between 1810 and 1830.” (V&A Museum)

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