A jewel inspired by the work of the painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867), "Odalisque, called also La Grande Odalisque", 1814. Commanded by Joachim and Caroline Murat, sovereigns of Naples, the Great Odalisque is the most famous nude of Ingres. This woman lying on a couch looking at us evokes the sensual East, showing only her back and the roundness of a breast. The painting was painted in Rome, where Ingres had been a resident of the Académie de France from 1806 to 1810. Exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris on the occasion of the Salon of 1819, this work was not
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