Odalisque

By Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836 to 1911), a French figure painter. Many of his paintings are single figures of beautiful women.

Odalisque was a female slave in an Ottoman seraglio. She was an assistant or apprentice to the concubines and wives, and she might rise in status to become one of them. Most odalisques were part of the Imperial Harem, that is the household of the Sultan.