Grande Odalisque (Une Odalisque or La Grande Odalisque), an oil painting (91 cm x 162 cm) of 1814 by the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, depicts an odalisque (concubine). Ingres' contemporaries considered the work to signify his break from Neoclassicism to exotic Romanticism. Grande Odalisque has been noted for the elongated proportions and lack of anatomical realism. The work is housed in the Louvre in Paris.
The painting was commissioned by Napoleon's sister, Queen Caroline Murat of Naples. Ingres drew upon works such as Dresden Venus by Giorgione, and Titian's Venus of Urbino as inspiration for this reclining figure, though the actual pose of a reclining figure looking back over her shoulder is directly drawn from the 1809 Portrait of Madame Récamier by Jacques-Louis David. The small head, elongated limbs, and cool color scheme reveal influences from Mannerists such as Parmigianino, whose Madonna with the Long Neck was also famous for anatomical distortion.
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