Odalisque with Slave (French: L'Odalisque à l'esclave) is an 1839 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres commissioned by Charles Marcotte.
These works exemplify a taste for Orientalist subject matter shared by many French painters of the Romantic era, notably Ingres' rival Eugène Delacroix.
One of them, Raymond Balze, wrote: "Ingres began his studies from nature and prepared the rough sketch on his canvas, then had made by his students the less important parts, very finished, such as the architecture, mosaics, rugs, furniture, instruments, which he often had [them] reposition, reluctantly [as he was] satisfied with their execution ... Then everything being finished with the figures, he alone undertook to harmonize the ensemble with onion skins of color.
[4] Ingres made a second version in 1842 with the help of his students Paul and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin which is at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
In this version the background wall, described by art historian Karin Grimme as imprisoning the odalisque in "a room with no exit",[5] was replaced with a garden painted by Paul Flandrin, inspired by the park at the Château de Dampierre.