Opulent Orient

Moroccan Dancer by the Polish artist Adam Styka (1890-1959). Styka was specialized in these opulent Arab girls.

Odalisca

Odalisca (1862) by the Italian painter Luigi Mussini (1813-1888). Despite it’s already in the fashion of orientalism it’s still a very neoclassical painting.

Sweet Berber Girls

Two sweet Berber girls by the French painter Alphonse-Étienne Dinet (1861- 1929). I don’t believe that he really saw anything like this, but he made a lot of money with his fantasies.

Cool Lady in New York

Cool Lady in New York by by the British illustrator David Wright (1912-1967). Kind of pin up, but gorgeous anyway.

Harem Dancer

Another of these kitschy harem dancers by the Austrian painter Hans Zatzka (1859-1945).

Diana Bathing

Diana Bathing (1869/1870) by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). Though Corot became famous for his landscape paintings, he was one of the founders of the Babizon School, in his beginnings he did more traditional art like this Diana.

Black Swan

Leda with the Swan (1917) by the Russian Art Nouveau painter Nikolai Kalmakov (1873-1955). Most impressing to me seems, that it’s a black swan. Was it only because of the colour or should it indicate some kind of evil?

Look at Me

Bendiction by the Australian painter Norman Lindsay (1879-1969). Another of these proud and self confident women, which are so typical fpr Lindsay.

Witches' Sabbath

Faust (1878) by the Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896). Falero shows here very sensational the witches' sabbath or Walpurgis Night, to wich Faust was taken by Mephisto.

Neoclassical Nude

Callirrhoe by the French painter Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin (1790-1870). Monvoisin depicted here a Greek naiad in a pure neoclassical style including the temple in the back.

Massage in the Harem

The Massage in the Harem (1883) by the French painter Édouard Debat-Ponsan (1847-1913). One of the better, means more interesting oriental paintings.

Salomé Dancing

Salomé (1932) by the Spanish painter Federico Beltrán Massés (1885-1949). Kind of an Art Deco interpretation. Because there’s no head to be seen, it must be the moment when she’s still dancing, putting down the veils.