In the modern literature on Orientalism, such absences are understood to do ideological work. 3 And yet nothing in his art seems to acknowledge, let alone try and reckon with, the constellation of forces that put Gérôme there in the first place. 2 Some art critics even spoke of Gérôme as practicing a kind of salvage ethnography: his dispassionate, studious, seemingly observational practice helped document a disappearing way of life. They often bemoaned the fouling of monuments by tourists, the theft and sale of antiquities, and the impact on local cultures of European modernizing and commercial imperatives. 1 Such attitudes among artists were not uncommon. The historian Frédéric Masson, who accompanied him to Egypt in 1868, spoke of Gérôme as preferring Cairo and Damascus most of all, untouched as they were by Europe s impure wind. What does this absence signify? Gérôme was certainly alert to the some of the changes wrought by imperialism. But only in the rarest cases did painters follow suit - and Gérôme, never. Figure 1: Francis Frith, The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, 1858Ģ H-France Salon Volume 14 (2022) 2 Frith often included a sprinkling of European travelers or Egyptians posing against ruins or gathering nearby. Some photographers, by contrast, took a different approach, for example Francis Frith, whose albumin prints of Egyptian monuments Gérôme knew (fig 1). Like most other nineteenth century painter-travelers, Gérôme routinely edited out any trace of his own presence, not to mention any trace of his travel companions, or the tourist infrastructure that supported them. But as far as his Orientalist corpus is concerned, there is one observer who remains invisible, namely the artist himself. Case in point: Jean-Léon Gérôme ( ), one the most renowned and popular artists of his day and once hailed for the first hand, observational character of his naturalism. And yet it seems they may have disguised as much as they revealed.

Other paintings that go well with this oneĪll my links H-France Salon Volume 14 (2022) 1 H-France Salon Volume 14, Issue 8, #8 Where is the Orientalist Artist? On Gérôme s 1887 Carpet Merchant Marc Gotlieb Clark Art Institute and Williams College Nineteenth-century European artists who travelled to North Africa and the Middle East claimed to paint what they saw. I speak and write French, English, German and Dutch.

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