Dance of the Almeh

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Dance of the Almeh
ArtistJean-Léon Gérôme
Year1863
MediumOil on panel, genre painting
Dimensions50 cm × 81 cm (20 in × 32 in)
LocationDayton Art Institute, Ohio

Dance of the Almeh (French: La danse de l'almée) is an 1863 genre painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.[1][2] It depicts the performance of an Almah belly dancer accompanied by musicians. Stylistically it reflects the fashionable Orientalism of the era, as well as the realism of many of Gérôme's works. Gérôme displayed the painting at the Salon of 1864 in Paris, where it generated a degree of controversy amongst those who felt it was "immoral". Today it is in the collection of the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Pal-Lapinski p.8-9
  2. ^ Scott Allan & Morton p.138-39
  3. ^ https://www.daytonartinstitute.org/exhibits/jean-leon-gerome-dance-of-the-almeh/

Bibliography

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  • Allan, Scott & Morton, Mary G. Reconsidering Gérôme. Getty Publications, 2010.
  • Ackerman, Gerald M. The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Sotheby's Publications, 1986.
  • Pal-Lapinski, Piya. The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth-century British Fiction and Culture: A Reconsideratio. University Press of New England, 2005.
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