Ali Gass, the Cantor’s Associate Director for Exhibitions, Collections, and Curatorial Affairs, and Caroline Winterer, Stanford professor of History and Director of the Stanford Humanities Center, discuss the history of the reclining female nude as it relates to Artists at Work.

IMAGE: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (France, 1780–1867), Odalisque, 1825. Lithograph. Mortimer C. Leventritt Fund, 1969.174