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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Slave Market canonical | 2 |
| The Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Orientalist painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil painting ⓘ |
| colorPalette | earth tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Jean-Léon Gérôme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
Middle Eastern slave market
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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
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enslaved woman of European appearance ⓘ |
| depictsLocation | imagined Middle Eastern city ⓘ |
| genre | Orientalism ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Le Marché aux esclaves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBeenCriticizedFor |
eroticization of slavery
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objectification of women ⓘ racial and gender stereotypes ⓘ |
| hasBeenDiscussedIn |
art history scholarship on Orientalism
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postcolonial critiques of visual culture ⓘ |
| hasCreatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext |
19th-century Orientalism in European art
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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
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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
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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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire