An odalisque is a female what?
Odalisque with Slave Odalisque with Slave Odalisque with Slave (French: "L'Odalisque à l'esclave") is an 1839 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres commissioned by Charles Marcotte. Executed in oil on canvas, it depicts a nude odalisque, a musician, and a eunuch in a harem interior. The painting is in the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a classic piece of Orientalism in French painting. Ingres painted a number of harem scenes during his long career, starting with the "Grande Odalisque" (1814). These works exemplify a taste for Orientalist subject matter shared by many French painters of the Romantic era, notably Ingres' rival Eugène
Odalisque Odalisque An odalisque () was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. The word "odalisque" is French in form and originates from the Turkish "odalık", meaning "chambermaid", from "oda", "chamber" or "room". It can also be transliterated "odahlic", "odalisk", and "odaliq". Joan DelPlato has described the term's shift in meaning from Turkish to English and French: 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. In western usage, the term