Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, The white Slave, 1888, oil on canvas, 149,5 x 118,3 cm. Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts © RMN/Gérard Blot With some 150 paintings and sculptures, the major exhibition Orientalism in Europe: from Delacroix to Kandinsky presents the diverse...

Jean-Léon Gérôme, L'intérieur grec, Le gynécée, 1850, huile sur toile, 66,95 x 99,1 cm. New York, collection particulière. Property of Lady Micheline Connery. PARIS – Gérôme fut longtemps stigmatisé comme l'emblème d'un académisme stérile, avant que la...

John Frederick Lewis, The Kibab Shop, Scutari, Asia Minor. Oil on panel. 21 by 31 in. (53.3 by 78.7 cm) Est. 1,500,000—2,000,000 USD. Sold 3,442,500 USD to an anonymous. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby's NEW YORK, NY.- Polly Sartori, Director of 19th Century...