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Odalisque

Female slave or concubine in an Ottoman seraglio / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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An odalisque (Ottoman Turkish: اوطه‌لق, Turkish: odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position, often in the setting of a harem.

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque
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Marià Fortuny's The Odalisque
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François Boucher, Ruhendes Mädchen (1751, Wallraf-Richartz Museum)

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