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- Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 1828)
- Odalisque in Yellow
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- Date: 1826
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic on paper
- Image size: 15.5 x 17.4 cm
- Inv: P749
- Location: Not on display
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- Odalisques were slave women in an Eastern harem (cf. Decamps, 'An Odalisque', P666 and Müller, 'An Odalisque', P605). Bonington produced only a few, comparatively restrained, exercises in the erotic Orientalism favoured by his friends Delacroix and Jules-Robert Auguste in the mid-1820s (see also Bonington, 'The Arabian Nights', P657 and 'Odalisque in Red', P734).