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 [Jigsaw Puzzle from Ricordi Arte entitled La Grande Odalisque by J.A.D. Ingres]
La Grande Odalisque
by J.A.D. Ingres
1500-pc jigsaw puzzle for US$ 37.80

This painting was a bit of a shocker when it was unveiled in 1814. The curt dismissal of foreign ways as heathen barbarism had turned about and become a sort of kinky fascination, which expressed in an artistic movement known as Orientalism. Ingres was making forays into the dream world of the odalisque before 1814 and he was still painting that world in the 1840s.

What exactly is an Odalisque? This word is an import into French from Turkish. It means a harem girl or a concubine or a mistress. An odalisque is a "kept woman" of some kind, but specifically she is an extra wife in a polygamous society. What was so shocking for the society of this time was that Ingres chose to depict very white European women cast into this role of harem wife. But what is even more curious to know about this time period is that there actually were many well-born European women who decided to choose this life for themselves and escaped from Europe into the Ottoman Empire to volunteer themselves into a seraglio (harem).
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[Details on this Jigsaw Puzzle]
Code:AG05111
Title:La Grande Odalisque
Art Credits:J.A.D. Ingres
Pieces:1500
Price:US$37.80
Points:2 pt
Size:23 x 33 in
Size: 59 x 83 cm
Materials:paper, blueboard
Maker:Ricordi Arte
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