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| Keywords: Jean-Léon Gérôme - A Roman Slave Market - Walters 37885.jpg Gérôme painted six slave-market scenes set in either ancient Rome or 19th-century Istanbul The subject provided him with an opportunity to depict facial expressions and to undertake figurative studies of sensual beauty He painted another view of the same event--Slave Market in Rome St Petersburg Hermitage Museum --in which the viewer looks over the heads of the spectators towards the slave ca 1884 Oil on canvas cm 64 1 56 9 ; size cm 94 93 88 9 18 73 accession number 37 885 22738 Boussod Valadon et Cie James B Haggin et al Sale New York 1917 no 119 as Sale of Circassian Slave Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1917 Signature Left J L Gerome Paris-New York a Continuing Romance Wildenstein Company New York 1977 Triumph of French Painting Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute Dayton 2000-2002 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid; J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles; Musee D'Orsay Paris 2010-2011 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D A Roman Slave Market Gérôme | ||||
