
The Valpincon Bather
1808 · Louvre, Paris
A bare back seen from behind under even light, with a striped turban wound round the head. Ingres returned to this view all his life.
★ 7.2

A bare back seen from behind under even light, with a striped turban wound round the head. Ingres returned to this view all his life.

Oedipus leans in close to answer the riddle, and a previous contestant's foot is lying at the bottom edge as a warning.