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Delteil 9
A fine impression of this famous print. This work, Ingres' most famous nude, was after a painting commissioned by Caroline Murat, Napoleon's sister and the queen of Naples. Ingres painted a nude with long, sinuous lines bearing little resemblance to anatomical reality, but rendered the details and texture of the fabrics with sharp precision. The painting drew fierce criticism when it was displayed at the Salon of 1819.
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