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Grande Odalisque also known as Une Odalisque or La Grande Odalisque is an oil painting of 1814 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.Grande Odalisque attracted wide criticism when it was first shown. It has been especially noted for the elongated proportions and lack of anatomical realism.
