Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Grande Odalisque — line against color

David's greatest pupil and Delacroix's lifelong rival. The battle between Ingres's line and Delacroix's color defined French painting for half a century. His portraits and nudes — the Grande Odalisque, the Turkish Bath — achieve a sinuous perfection of contour that influenced Picasso and Matisse.

Key works

• Grande Odalisque1814— Three extra vertebrae — beauty over anatomy
  Louvre, Paris
• The Turkish Bath1862— Painted at 82 — a lifetime's obsession with the nude
  Louvre, Paris

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