A seated nude turns her back to us on the edge of a bed, her hair bound in a patterned headscarf. Ingres painted it at 28 while a student at the French Academy in Rome, and it takes its name from a later owner. Her pale, smooth back seems to float against a heavy green curtain and crisp white linen, calm rather than openly erotic.
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Ingres reused this figure 55 years later as the mandolin player in The Turkish Bath. Man Ray borrowed her back for his 1924 photograph Le Violon d'Ingres.
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