Startlingly upfront is Suzanne Valadon's 1923 self-portrait in which she is draped luxuriantly over a divan, cigarette in mouth, in a pose that subverts the tradition of the odalisque in French art from Ingres to Matisse - and makes no apology for her evident bohemianism and unconventionality, not to mention her generous fleshiness. She was an artist's model in 1880s Paris, used by Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes and Toulouse-Lautrec, but she was also supported and taught as a painter by Degas. (https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/17/gender.arts)