Jean dominique ingres turkish bath
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The Turkish Bath
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- Medium:
- Other
- Support:
- Wood
- Subject:
- Scenery
- Framed:
- Yes
- Art Movement:
Neoclassicism
- Created by:
Jean Auguste Dominick Ingres
- Current Location:
Paris, France
- Displayed at:
Musée du Louvre
- Owner:
Musée du Louvre
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The Turkish Bath
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
The Turkish Bath
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
The Turkish Bath (Le Bain Turc) is an oil painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It depicts a group of nude women in the bath of a harem, and is painted in a highly erotic style that evokes both the Near East and earlier western styles associated with mythological subject matter. Painted on canvas laid down on wood, it measures x &#;cm.
The work is signed and dated , when Ingres was around 82 years old, and was completed in In that year Ingres altered the painting's original rectangular format, and cut the painting to its present tondo form. Photographs of the painting in its original format survive.
It seems based on an April written description of a Turkish harem by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, where she mentions having viewed some two hundred nude women. The painting develops and elaborates a number of motifs Ingres had explored in earlier paintings, in particular his The Valpin&#;on Bather and Grande Odalisque of
Its erotic content did not provoke a scandal, since for much its existence it has remained in private collections. It is now in the Louvre, Paris.
The painting is known for its subtle colourisation, especially the very pale skin of the women resting in
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Work information
Title: The turkish bath
Artist:Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dozens of nude Turkish women are sitting or lying on sofas in various poses, in an Oriental interior which is arranged around a pool. Many of these bathers have just emerged from the water and are stretching themselves or dozing off; others are chatting or drinking coffee. In the background a woman is dancing, while in the foreground another, with her back toward us, is playing music on a sort of lute. The main element of eroticism in the painting focuses on two women, one of whom is caressing the breast of another sitting next to her. This picture, dating from , thus combines two subjects which had been close to Ingres's heart for more than fifty years: the nude and the Orient.
It was Prince Napoleon who commissioned this harem scene from Ingres around The painting was delivered in , but then returned soon afterwards because it had shocked the empress. The painter continued to rework his picture until , even after he had dated it It was only finally revealed to the wider public in , on the occasion of the Ingres retrospective at the Salon d'Automne, and here it excited the most avant-garde painters such as Picasso. It was the masterpiece of Ingres's later years,