Odalisque

An 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.

François Boucher (1703-1770)

Julianne Moore as Ingres' Grand Odalisque by Michael Thompson

Francesco Hayez (1791-1882)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 – 1875)

Luigi Mussini (1813 – 1888)

Ernest Hébert (1817 - 1908)

Théodore Chassériau (1819 – 1856)

Henri-Pierre Picou (1824 - 1895)

Joseph Fortuné-Séraphin Layraud (1834 - 1912)

Jules Lefebvre (1836 – 1911)

Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal (1838 – 1874)

(The designer Mariano Fortuny's father)

Rodolfo Amoedo (1857 - 1941)

Ferdinand Roybet (1840 - 1920)

Josef Straka (1864-1946)

Ignace Spiridon

Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851 – 1929)

Louis Courtat (1840 - 1909)

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847 – 1928)

Léon-François Comerre (1850 - 1916)

Alberto Fabbi (1858-1906)

Fabbio Fabbi (1861-1946)

Gyula Tornai (1861-1928)

Giuseppe Signorini (1857-1932)

Hermann Fenner-Behmer (1866–1913)

Franz (Ferenc) Helbing (1870 – 1958)

They say this is from 1880! *leer*

 Gaston Bussière (1862 - 1928)

Giulio Rosati (1858 - 1917)

Hans Zatzka (1859 - 1949)

Jacqueline Marval, née Marie-Joséphine Vallet (1866 - 1932)

Otto Pilny (1866 - 1936) - that girl can dance... you can see the hip thrust :-D

Juan Luna y Novicio (1857 — 1899)

Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck (1873 - 1965)

Howard Chandler Christy (1873 – 1952)

Eh...

Douglas Joseph

Kiki as odalisque by Man Ray

(Emmanuel Radnitzky) (1890 – 1976) 

Some a little more "true" than others, some more artistic than others, 

but in reality, these were nothing but pin-up girls of that time.

I happen to like pin-up girls...

See also Onok-art's Slave Market, if you like this...
what wouldn't you do, when you wanted to paint nude women :-D