A Roman Slave Market  1884

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1917 [br] Gérôme painted six slave-market scenes set in either ancient Rome or 19th-century Istanbul. The subject provided him with an opportunity to depict facial expressions and to undertake figurative studies of sensual beauty. He painted another view of the same event--"Slave Market in Rome" (St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum)--in which the v...