The Valpinçon Bather
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Title
The Valpinçon Bather
Subject
Orientalism, Painting, Nude, Female, Bath, Neoclassicism
Description
Ingres paints a female nude from behind taking a bath. Given her turban, it is assumed that she is from the "Orient," the East. This nude later served as a model for his future nude paintings.
Creator
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Source
https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/bather-known-valpincon-bather
Publisher
Google Arts&Culture
Date
1808
Contributor
Rabia Melis Direk
Rights
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Relation
N/A
Format
H. 1.46 m; W. 0.97 m
Language
N/A
Type
Painting
Identifier
Charles Baudelaire once described the lady as having great sexual attraction.
Coverage
Roxana passes in a time period where there was a great fascination with the East and its customs.
Files
Citation
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “The Valpinçon Bather,” Enlightenmens, accessed March 24, 2023, http://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/items/show/212.