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Moorish Bath
1870
Here Gérôme afforded his viewer a glimpse into the private world of a woman’s bath, a scene he surely never witnessed. The pale, red-headed nude—perhaps meant to suggest a Circassian slave from the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire—forms a striking contrast to her African attendant in the sun-dappled interior of an Islamic bathhouse. Read more...
- Size:
- 50.8 x 40.6cm (20 x 16in.)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Courtesy of the MFA, Boston
- For more:
- http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/moorish-bath-32124
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