Clark Art Institute Williamstown Estados Unidos
OST - 84x63 - 1866
A naked woman
at center and man at far right are shown in a public courtyard, as prospective
slave owners inspect their bodies. Meticulous details like the figures’
clothing, as well as the style of the surrounding architecture, evoke locales
such as Egypt and Turkey, where Gérôme spent several months traveling and
sketching. Constructed both from imagination and observation, this dehumanizing
scene portrays Islamic society as strange, violent, and depraved. Such
paintings appealed to France’s assumptions of its own moral superiority as it
expanded its colonial empire across North Africa.
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