Presentation of the Odalisques to the Sultan, Émile Friant, 1881

Per references: émile friant painted this oriental scene under the influence of the orientalist painter jean-léon gérôme while he (friant) was in paris preparing to enter the great prix de rome of painting (his 1883 entry took second prize) a few years before his trip to tunis. The choice of subject is tinged with eroticism and a certain violence. Object Type: painting. Date: 1881. Dimensions: height: 33 cm (12.9 in); width: 40 cm (15.7 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy. Emile Friant - Les Odalisques au Sultan