Orientalism in France

Abstract

An exhibition entitled Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting, 1800–1880 immediately raises two questions: First, is it deliberately timely, motivated by a desire to exploit both the current interest in the Middle East and Islam and the contemporary revival of Salon art? Secondly (as we recall such much-reproduced paintings as Delacroix's Sardanapalus and G+er*ome's Slave Market), will it embarrass us by representing a world distinguished primarily either by cruel punishments and dripping blood or by a distasteful sensuality as lustful Arabs prod naked white slave girls?

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