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The Odyssey is an 1850 painting by the French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, showing a female personification of the eponymous poem by Homer. It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

History of the work

This work is a personification of the Odyssey; an ancient Greek epic attributed to the bard Homer. It is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of literature and, along with the Iliad, one of the two founding poems of European civilization.

The woman painted by Ingres is a personification of the Odyssey and originally featured in another of his works, The Apotheosis of Homer (1827).

The Odyssey was bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon by Joseph Gillet in 1923.

See also

• List of paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

References

1. Madeleine Vincent, La peinture des XIXe et XXe siècles, Éditions de Lyon, 1956 (French)

External links

• http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=REF&VALUE_1=000PE028271

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List of paintings
History paintings	The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles (1801) Oedipus and the Sphinx (1808) Jupiter and Thetis (1811) Romulus' Victory Over Acron (1812) Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia (1812) The Dream of Ossian (1813) Raphael and La Fornarina (1813) Paolo and Francesca (1814–1819) Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing Henry IV's Sword (1814) Aretino and Charles V's Ambassador (1815) Henry IV Receiving the Spanish Ambassador (1817) The Death of Leonardo da Vinci (1818) Roger Freeing Angelica (1819) The Dauphin's Entry Into Paris (1821) The Vow of Louis XIII (1824) The Apotheosis of Homer (1827) The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian (1834) The Illness of Antiochus (1840) The Odyssey (1850) Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII (1854)
Nudes	The Half-Length Bather (1807) The Valpinçon Bather (1808) La Dormeuse de Naples (1809) Grande Odalisque (1814) The Source (c 1820) Odalisque with Slave (1842) Venus Anadyomene (1848) The Turkish Bath (1863)
Portraits	Bonaparte, First Consul (1804) Portrait of Philibert Rivière (1805) Portrait of Marie-Françoise Rivière (1805–06) Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière (1806) Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne (1806) La Belle Zélie (1806) Portrait of Madame Duvaucey (1807) Portrait of Charles Marcotte (1810) Portrait of Paul Lemoyne (1811) Portrait of Madame de Senonnes (1814) Portrait of Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples (1814) Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1823) Portrait of Madame Marcotte de Sainte-Marie (1826) Portrait of Amédée de Pastoret (1826) Portrait of Monsieur Bertin (1832) Portrait of Louis-Mathieu Molé (1834) Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry (1842) Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville (1845) Portrait of Baronne de Rothschild (1848) Portrait of Madame Moitessier (1844–1856) The Princesse de Broglie (1851–1853) Portrait of Madame Ingres (1859)
Self-portraits	Self-Portrait Aged 24 (1806) Self-Portrait at Seventy-Eight (1858) Antwerp Self-Portrait (1864–1865)
Museums	Musée Ingres

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