The Snake Charmer
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The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a le
Jean Léon Gérôme Le charmeur de serpents
Another painting by Gérôme entitled The Snake Charmer, date unknown, New Orleans Museum of Art.
Jean-Léon Gérôme and Aimé Morot, study for The Snake Charmer, by 1877, private collection.
Jean Léon Gérôme self portrait c 1884 Eskenazi Museum Bloomington
The Slave Market is an 1866 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts a West Asian or North African setting where a man inspects the teeth of a nude, female Abyssinian slave in the co
The Snake Charmer
…painting in his book. It is in the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, which also owns another controversial Gérôme painting, The Slave Market. The painting depicts a naked boy standing on a small carpet in the center of a room with blue-tiled walls, facing away from the viewer, holding a…
Jean Léon Gérôme Le Marché d'esclaves
Gérome's Buying A Slave (1857), with a Classical setting, predated The Slave Market by almost ten years.
Greek Slave (1870), an unfinished (due to theft) painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Slave Market (1871), Cincinnati Art Museum