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The Turkish Bath

1862

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The story

Its first buyer, a relation of Napoleon III, returned it within days because his wife found it unsuitable. Ingres then turned the rectangle into a circle, and in 1865 the former Turkish diplomat Khalil Bey bought it for his collection of erotic paintings.

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Object details

Title: The Turkish Bath
Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Date: 1862
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on wood
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris (RF 1934)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1131
Original image: 1280 × 1264 px
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Cite this object

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The Turkish Bath. 1862. Musée du Louvre, Paris (RF 1934). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1131/