An Odalisque Painting By Theodor Pallady At The Arts Museum In Constanta Romania Editorial Image

Theodor Pallady was a Romanian painter. He opened a studio in Paris on Place Dauphine, where he worked until 1940, traveling often between France and Romania. An odalisque Turkish odal?k) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western European usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely in a reclining position, often in the setting of a harem. It was part of a fascination with Orientalism, particularly in Great Britain and France.