In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
The languorous, sensuous pose of this woman is strongly reminiscent of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's popular paintings of odalisques, female slaves, and concubines in Turkish harems. Much of this canvas has been left thinly painted or entirely blank, suggesting that it was a figural study rather than a finished work of art. The French Academy in the 1800s viewed the depiction of the nude as the ultimate measure of an artist's skill. Because models changed poses frequently, students had to work quickly and without embellishment. Here the artist completed only those areas needed to emphasize the contours of the model's body.
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Henri Lehmann — Study of a Female Nude
Camille Corot — Bacchante by the Sea
Horace Vernet — Academic Study of Adolescent Boy, Seen from 
Pierre Van Hanselaere — Susanna and the Elders
L. Nicolas — Nimf
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres — Odalisque in Grisaille
Jules-Élie Delaunay — Diana
Paul Peel — A Venetian Bather
Carolus-Duran — Lilia
Gustave Courbet — The Source
Joaquín Sorolla — Nude
Jean-Jacques Henner — The Chaste Susannah
