Horace Vernet (French, 1789-1863)
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix
(French, 1798-1863), Fanatics of Tangier, 1837-1838, oil
on canvas, 38 1/2 x 51
1/2 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. See Romanticism.
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860),
The Favorite of the Pasha (Interieur de serail
Une odalisque), c. 1830, water and body-color with some
gum varnish, on paper, 31.5 x 25.4cm, Wallace Collection, London.
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860),
The Night Patrol at Smyrna, oil
on canvas, 29 1/4 x 36
3/8 inches (74.3 x 92.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Narcisse Virgilie Diaz de la Pena (French,
1807-1876), Seraglio, Constantinople, 1865-1875,
26 1/4 x 33 inches, oil
on panel, Minneapolis Institute
of Arts.
Prosper Marilhat (French, 1811-1847), Palm Trees, 1830s, oil
on canvas, relined, 33.3
x 22.2 cm, Wallace Collection, London.
Richard Dadd (British, 1817-1886), A Turk,
1863, 6.3 x 6.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See art
brut and horror vacui.
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French,
1824-1904), Prayer in the Mosque, oil
on canvas, 35 x 29 1/2
inches (88.9 x 74.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. This
painting was made from sketches Gérôme made at the
mosque of 'Amr during his travels in Egypt and the Near East
in 1876. Still standing in the eastern part of old Cairo, this
mosque dates from the seventh century A.D. See linear
perspective.
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Cafe House, Cairo (Casting Bullets),
probably 1870s, oil on
canvas, 21 1/2 x 24 3/4
inches (54.6 x 62.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Jean-Léon Gérôme, The
Carpet Merchant, about 1887, oil
on canvas, 32 7/8 x 25
1/2 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This is a picture
of the Court of the Rug Market in Cairo, which Gérôme
visited in 1885.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American,
1834-1903), Sketch for Rose and Silver: La Princesse du Pays
de la Porcelaine, 1863-64, oil
on fiberboard, Worcester Art Museum, MA. This is a preparatory
study for a portrait of Christine Spartali, whose
father served as Greek consul-general in London while Whistler
was there. Miss Spartali's Chinese costume, the porcelains, and the asymmetrical
composition
mark this as one of numerous paintings Whistler executed in the
1860s reflecting his interest in Chinese and Japanese arts.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (English, 1836-1912),
Death of the Pharoah's Firstborn Son,
1872, oil on canvas,
77 x 124.5 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. See Egyptian art and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
orientalism or Orientalism - Usually refers to western art whose subject
or style is drawn from eastern influences.