Musée d’Orsay · 1856
The Source
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Ingres spent over 25 years perfecting this single idealized figure, treating flawless line and proportion as more important than any story.
Why it matters
Ingres spent over 25 years perfecting this single idealized figure, treating flawless line and proportion as more important than any story.
Look closer
Trace the single continuous curve running from her raised arm down to her hip — that line is the whole point of the painting.
Begun in the 1820s and only finished decades later, it became one of the most copied nudes in Western art.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €3–8 million.
The museum work is not for sale. This is ELYIO indicative context—not an appraisal, insurance value or offer.