Why it matters
A nude woman sits with her back to us, in calm and measured sensuality. Widely regarded as Ingres's first great nude, the figure returns in his Turkish Bath half a century later.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1808 in Rome.
- It was originally called Seated Woman.
- The Goncourt brothers wrote that 'Rembrandt himself would have envied the amber colour of this pale torso'.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Valpinçon Bather (CC BY-SA 4.0).
