Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Grande Odalisque Painting

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La Grande Odalisque is a work by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres depicting an odalisque, or concubine. Ingres' contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres' break from Neoclassicism, indicating a shift toward exotic Romanticism. This Painting attracted wide criticism when it was first shown. It has been especially noted for the elongated proportions and lack of anatomical realism. The work is housed in the Louvre in Paris. Original size by Ingres is 35 x 64 inches.