The Slave Market
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Clark Art Institute
About the painting
The Slave Market (French: Le Marché d'esclaves) is an 1866 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts a West Asian or North African setting where a man inspects the teeth of a nude, female Abyssinian slave in the context of the Barbary slave trade.
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The painting was bought by Adolphe Goupil on 23 August 1866 and exhibited at the Salon of 1867 in Paris. It was bought and sold several times until Robert Sterling Clark bought it in 1930. Since 1955 it is part of the Clark Art Institute's collection.
Along with Gérôme's The Snake Charmer (also owned by the Clark), The Slave Market has become an iconic example of 19th-century orientalist art.
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Image: Jean-Léon Gérôme; Wikimedia Commons · public domain