The Slave Market

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The Slave Market is an 1866 Orientalist painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting the inspection and sale of enslaved people in a Middle Eastern slave market.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Orientalist painting
painting
artForm oil painting
colorPalette earth tones
countryOfOrigin France
creator Jean-Léon Gérôme NERFINISHED
depicts Middle Eastern slave market
crowd of male buyers
enslaved people
inspection of enslaved woman
male slave traders
nude female slave
public auction setting
slave market
depictsEthnicGroup Middle Eastern men
enslaved woman of European appearance
depictsLocation imagined Middle Eastern city
genre Orientalism
hasAlternativeTitle Le Marché aux esclaves NERFINISHED
hasBeenCriticizedFor eroticization of slavery
objectification of women
racial and gender stereotypes
hasBeenDiscussedIn art history scholarship on Orientalism
postcolonial critiques of visual culture
hasCreatorNationality French
hasHistoricalContext 19th-century Orientalism in European art
post-abolition European fascination with slavery
hasInfluence 19th-century European views of the Middle East
hasPerspective male gaze
hasStyle highly detailed realism
hasTheme colonial imagination of the Orient
commodification of the human body
power imbalance
racial hierarchy
sexual exploitation
violence against women
hasTitleLanguage French
inception 1866
languageOfWork none
mainSubject Orientalist fantasy of the Middle East
human trafficking
slavery
medium oil on canvas
movement Academic art
partOf Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Orientalist works
setting interior courtyard or market hall
timePeriodDepicted pre-modern Middle East

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Jean-Léon Gérôme notableWork The Slave Market
Dalí double-image paintings notableWork The Slave Market
this entity surface form: The Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire
Gustave Boulanger notableWork The Slave Market