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''The Half-Length Bather'' (French: ''La Baigneuse à mi-corps'') is an 1807 painting by the French artist
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Half-Length Bather, The Paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres category:1807 paintings Paintings in Bayonne Nude art
''The Half-Length Bather'' (French: ''La Baigneuse à mi-corps'') is an 1807 painting by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ...
. It is now in the Musée Bonnat
The Musée Bonnat-Helleu is an art museum in Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The museum was created in 1901 when Bayonne-born painter Léon Bonnat gave his extensive personal collections of art – notably an exceptional drawing collection †...
in Bayonne.
It is one of his first female nudes. It is notable for the contrast between the realism in the depiction of the turban with the abstract treatment of the woman's back.
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