The Valpinçon Bather

Ingres turns a seated nude's smooth back to us, wrapped in cool light and serene line. The understated pose became one of his most admired studies of form.

The Valpinçon Bather

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  • Date1808
  • MovementNeoclassicism
  • WhereLouvre, Paris
  • RegionFrance