Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), Une piscine dans le harem c. 1876

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Une piscine dans le harem (Pool in a Harem), oil on canvass, 73,5 × 62 cm, c. 1876; source: with kind permission of the Eremitage St. Petersburg, © Eremitage St. Petersburg

The Harem scene by French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme visualizes, and thereby further enhances, 19th-century Western stereotypes of a fabulous, exotic, mysterious and sensual Orient.

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Une piscine dans le harem (Pool in a Harem), oil on canvas, 73,5 × 62 cm, c. 1876; source: with the kind permission of the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg, © State Hermitage Museum.