Tag: arab slave trade
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ARTIST: Jean-Leon Gerome
“It is one of these [more expensive] women, an Abyssinian, that M. Gérôme has taken as the principal figure of his composition. She is nude and being displayed by the djellab, who has the fine head of a brigand accustomed to every sort of abduction and violence; the idea of the eternal soul must…
Author Adrienne Morris 