A Roman Slave Market, Jean-Léon Gérôme, circa 1884

Gérôme painted six slave-market scenes set in either ancient rome or 19th-century istanbul. The subject provided him with an opportunity to depict facial expressions and to undertake figurative studies of sensual beauty. He painted another view of the same event--slave market in rome (st. Petersburg, hermitage museum)--in which the viewer looks over the heads of the spectators towards the slave. Object Type: painting. Genre: nude. Date: circa 1884. Place of creation: Rome, Italy. Dimensions: height: 64.1 cm (25.2 in) ; width: 56.9 cm (22.4 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Jean Leon Gerome Selling Slaves in Rome