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This artist borrowed a pose from a mural at Herculaneum for a portrait of a woman surrounded (15[1])by Second Empire fashions holding her hand to her temple. In a portrait condemned as “Gothic” and “barbarous,” one of this artist’s subjects sits on a gilded, rounded throne while holding his right arm up to grasp a scepter, in a pose (15[2])similar to this artist’s painting of an impassive dark-haired god with an imploring nymph. This artist of Madame Moitessier and Jupiter and Thetis (15[1])depicted the back of a nude mandolin player, reusing his (*) Valpinçon (10[1])Bather in a tondo. This student of David recalled his teacher’s reclining portrait of Madame Recamier in one orientalist painting and also depicted nude harem women at a Turkish Bath. (10[1])For 10 points, name this French painter who included extra vertebrae in his Grande Odalisque. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (The second line refers to Ingres’s Napoleon on His Imperial Throne and his Jupiter and Thetis.)
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