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The Turkish Bath (Le Bain Turc) is an 1862 painting by the 82-year-old Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres showing nude women in a harem. Originally rectangular it was altered to its present tondo form by the artist in 1863. Its erotic content did not provoke a scandal (as compared say with Manet’s publicly exhibited 1863 Déjeuner sur l’herbe) since for much its life it has remained in private collections. It is now in the Louvre.
