Odalisque with a Tambourine ☶ Matisse ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver The dark haired and brown-eyed

The dark haired and brown-eyed young woman is only identified as Margherita

looking back down the mountain trail he is traveling

The closeup composition is unlike any of Van Gogh's other paintings

and as it lacks a vanishing point

possibly to portray himself as both saint and sinner

Odalisque with a Tambourine ☶ Matisse ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver The dark haired and brown-eyedOdalisque with a Tambourine (1926) by Henri Matisse depicts a nude female figure reclining in a chair in front of an open window. An odalisque is a female slave or concubine in a harem. Here she is surrounded by vibrant colors, the room has a decorative wallpaper, the chair patterned with yellow and green stripes, and a red floor. Matisse claimed that he painted odalisques as an excuse "paint the nude" having seen harems firsthand during trips to