Showing posts with label Slaves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slaves. Show all posts

Friday, December 19, 2014

Two Slaves

Two slaves are sold by the French painter Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923).

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Girl in Chains

The Gilded Cage by the Irish painter George Hare (1857–1933). Hare was specialised in painting nudes and semi-nudes in religious or allegorical settings.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Exotic Slave

The White Slave (1894) by the British artist Ernest Normand (1859-1923), who was specialized in historical nudes. Here his main concern was the exotic outlook, ancient architecture, oriental costumes and landscape and … in the center the exotic woman.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Beautiful Slave to Sale

A slave on the market by the Brazilian painter Oscar Pereira da Silva (1867-1939). The sign between her breasts announces that she’s a virgin, but she doesn’t seem scared more curious and defying.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Slave Market

Slave market (1866) by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904).

Despite all "realism" I'm sure that Gérôme never had seen a scene like this. The examination of the teeth is a nice detail but pure fantasy. A buyer of young women wouldn't have been very interested in her teeth.