Painting Expressions

 La Japonaise au bain/The Japanese Bather (c. 1865), by James Tissot (1836-1902). Musée de Dijon, France. The model Tissot used for this work was not a Japanese girl but a Parisian model dressed in a kimono. This painting which some would declare as being slightly pornographic was his only depiction of a female nude. Life Study (Study of an Egyptian Girl), John Singer Sargent, 1891, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art It holds the distinction as the only known oil nude of a female that Sargent ever presented. Imposing painting at 6' 1" tall. The identity of the woman who posed in Cairo for this full-length figure study is not known. Omphale, John Bram Liston Shaw, 1914, watercolor. Queen Omphale asserts her authority by donning the lionskin on the Nemean lion, and holding Hercules' the club. The labors of Hercules are in the background. Byam Shaw ignores the figure of Hercules altogether, showing a triumphant and erotically-charged Omphale (1914), against a background o...

 Henrich Haus Schlimarski (1853-1913), The New Odalisque The Painter and the Model, Victor Schivert (1863 – 1926, Romanian) La perla del mercader, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma (1856 – 1909, Chilean) L’abandon, Guillaume Seignac (1870 – 1924, French) Nymphs Hunting, Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855 – 1919, American) La favorite, Luis Ricardo Falero (1851 – 1896, Spanish) The Balance Of The Zodiac, Luis Ricardo Falero (1851 – 1896, Spanish) La blonde aux seins nus, Edouard Manet (1832 – 1883, French) 

Edouard Kasparides  (1858-1926) Austrian) The penitent Mary Magdalene in the cave, 1890 Oil on canvas, s igned and dated lower right: Ed. Kasparides The Harem Bath,  Jean-Léon Gérôme  (1824-1904), The Harem Bath, “Harem’de Yıkananlar” ( Les Baigneuses du Harem ),1901, Dickinson Gallery Collection When Jean-Léon Gérôme visited Egypt for the first time, he was amazed by what he saw and when we look at it now, he began to paint his breathtaking Orientalist paintings. Gérôme's works covered a number of themes such as history, Greek mythology, and portraiture. Most of these included magnificent nude female figures bearing his signature. These figures, whose bodies are as bright as the marbles detailed in his paintings, are included in the scenes he depicts in a theatrical way. Gérôme became one of the most valuable painters of the time due to this success he exhibited in his paintings. Some of his paintings were so successful that they became symbols of the Orientalist era....

  The Parisienne (Virginie), Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt, 1854-1905, Finnish painter and illustrator, Joensuu Art Museum. Parisienne, 1885 At the Piano, 1884 Reading Parisienne, 1880 Young Woman with a Fan Kukkaistyttö, 1884 Female Nude, Study, 1874 Good Friends (Portrait of the Artist's Sister Bertha Edelfelt) , 1881 Kohtaus tanssiaisissa, 1884 Chez L'Artiste (Les Gravures), 1881

Wilhelm Gallhof (1878 – 1918, German), The Coral Chain His motifs fit into the zeitgeist of the new beginnings before the First World War and anticipated the lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties . Gallhof fell as a soldier at the end of the First World War at the age of about 40. Lying Nude Nude Standing Nude Nude before a Mirror, 1910   The Temptation Of The Knight, 1910   Halbakt (Semi-nude) Female Nude Standing and Turned to the Left

  Potiphar’s Wife, Domenico Morelli (1823-1901) Potiphar, also known by the title of Al-Aziz in Islam, is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran.  Potiphar is the captain of Pharaoh's guard who is said to have purchased Joseph as a slave and, impressed by his intelligence, makes him the master of his household. Unfortunately, Potiphar's wife, who was known for her infidelities, took a liking to Joseph, and attempted to seduce him. When Joseph refused her advances, and ran off, leaving his outer vestment in her hands, she retaliated by falsely accusing him of trying to rape her, and Potiphar had Joseph imprisoned.  The false accusation by Potiphar's wife plays an important role in Joseph's narrative, because had he not been imprisoned, he would not have met the fellow prisoner who introduced him to Pharaoh. The medieval Sefer HaYashar, a commentary on the Torah, gives Potiphar's wife's name as Zuleikha, as do many Islamic traditions - thus the Persian poem ca...