An Egyptian Fellah Woman with her Baby  1872

Baumann was a rare artist in her own day. Partly because she was a woman, but also because of her unusual openness towards the exotic and the unknown. This painting is an excellent example of Baumann’s keen sense for the erotic and the sensuous. [br] This painting of an Egyptian farm worker is among the most striking of Jerichau Baumann’s oriental scenes. The nudity benea...