Grande Odalisque Caravaggio having met when Modigliani first

having met when Modigliani first visited Paris in 1906 and living in the art community of Bateau-Lavoir

for the square

and her posture is hip

The treatment of the young woman's dress also evokes the manner of a Renoir

His enigmatic smile and curly hair would be typical of Leonardo's way

Grande Odalisque Caravaggio having met when Modigliani firstExhibited at the Salon of 1819, this large reclining nude represents a Western woman in an oriental decor: fly swatter in peacock feathers, opium pipe near an incense burner, turban on her head. The pose of the back is original, as is the elongated odalisque. This is a fantasized harem figure. Ingres, who has never made the trip to the East but is a reader of travelogues, gives in here fully to the romanticized vision of the universe of the Ottoman