Odalisque, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1870, presents a reclining female figure in richly patterned, Eastern-inspired costume, her form modeled in warm flesh tones against drapery of deep crimson, gold, and emerald. The brushwork is fluid and assured, the palette built on saturated reds and golden ochres in a register that nods to the orientalist taste then current in French painting. The picture predates Renoir's full embrace of Impressionism and shows his early dialogue with the studio traditions of Delacroix and the romantic generation. It distills an opulent studio fantasy into a luminous early canvas.