";s:4:"text";s:5170:" France was at this time expanding its African and Near Eastern possessions, often brutally. W. S. Gilbert refers to the "Grace of an odalisque on a divan" in Colonel Calverley's song "If You Want A Receipt For That Popular Mystery" from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Patience. Find more prominent pieces of nude painting (nu) at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. The “Odalisque” which literally means female slave or member of a harem, has a long history in art, and here are some of my favorites. Titian’s work had established the tradition of the reclining female nude placed in a … In the mind of an early 19th century French male viewer, the sort of person for whom this image was made, the odalisque would have conjured up not just a harem slave, itself a misconception, but a set of fears and desires linked to the long history of aggression between Christian Europe and Islamic Asia. Indeed, Ingres’ porcelain sexuality is made acceptable even to an increasingly prudish French culture because of the subject’s distance.Where, for instance, the Renaissance painter Titan had veiled his eroticism in myth, Ingres covered his object of desire in a misty exoticism. The English and French term odalisque (rarely odalique) derives from the Turkish 'oda', meaning "chamber"; thus an odalisque originally meant a chamber girl or attendant. Ingres’ early Romantic tendencies can be seen most famously in his painting, Here a languid nude is set in a sumptuous interior. Une odalisque est une esclave vierge, qui peut accéder jusqu'au statut de concubine ou de femme dans les sérails ottomans, mais dont la plupart sont au service du harem du sultan. Odalisque Origin France Date 1874 Medium Oil on canvas Inscriptions Inscribed upper right: Jules. For a long time, naked woman were only allowed to be depicted in biblical or … For other uses, see France was at this time expanding its African and Near Eastern possessions, often brutally. The gentlemen who wish to buy an odalisque or a wife, make their offers.