The world of Romantic OrientalismRomantic orientalism transforms the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East into scenes of color, movement and desire, while revealing the colonial gaze that constructs them.
Around 1798 -1890Great arc of romantic orientalism
Egypt · Maghreb · LevantVery different territories brought together by the European perspective
Travel & workshopTwo sources often intertwined
°75,000Works created by the artists combined - overall estimate
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Around 1798 -1890 · Journey, empire and Orient imagined by European painting
Romantic orientalism transforms the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East into scenes of color, movement and desire, while revealing the colonial gaze that constructs them.
From the Egyptian expedition and the Napoleonic wars, European artists multiplied journeys, stories and images devoted to a vast "Orient" which brought together very different societies. Gros gives Bonaparte a heroic stature in Jaffa; Ingres invents his odalisques without having visited North Africa; Delacroix returns from Morocco with notebooks, costumes and memories of observed gestures; Chassériau and Fromentin then explore bodies, horses and Algerian light. These works expand the romantic palette with reds, dazzling whites, blues and memories of observed gestures; Chassériau and Fromentin then explore bodies, horses and Algerian light. These works expand the romantic palette with reds, dazzling whites, blues and warm shadows. They also combine real observation, literary quotation and fantasy of access to private spaces. Looking at them today therefore requires a double movement: appreciating pictorial invention while identifying exoticization, colonial asymmetry and stereotypes. The collection allows us to precisely compare historical images, studio nudes, travel scenes and portraits of power. The "Romantic Orientalism" selection notably compares Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa - Antoine-Jean Gros and Le Tepidarium. His reading favors drawing.
The Romantic Orient is never a simple place: it is an image constructed between encounter, desire, imperial strategy and workshop invention.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Make conquest an image
Military campaigns and travel stories fuel history painting. This milestone sheds light on the "Romantic Orientalism" collection by favoring drawing.
Travel, collect and recompose
Delacroix, Chassériau and their contemporaries combine lived study and conventions.
Setting up an exotic market
Harem scenes, horsemen and landscapes become sought-after genres.
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Saturated color
Red, blue and gold contrast brilliance with European chiaroscuro. This trait guides a reading of "Romantic Orientalism" centered on drawing.
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Body exposed
The orientalist nude often reveals the power of the gaze more than the life of the model.
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Convincing accessory
Fabric, weapon and ceramic serve to produce an appearance of authenticity.
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Equestrian action
Horse and rider condense speed, nobility and fantasy of freedom.
Explore by universe
See the painting and question the gaze
Conquest, bathing, odalisque and passage to Morocco distinguish four regimes of the orientalist image.
Jaffa01
Heroize the countryside
Gros organizes illness, army and imperial gesture around Bonaparte.
For history. Reading "Romantic Orientalism" through drawing.Tepidarium02
Inventing the intimate
Chassériau places the body in a dream space between antiquity and the Orient.
For the lookOdalisque03
Build a type
Ingres stretches anatomy to serve an available beauty idea.
For criticismMaroc04
Observe the movement
Delacroix transforms the passage of the ford into a rhythm of horses and colors.
For the tripAntoine-Jean Gros05
Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa - Antoine-Jean Gros
Jaffa transforms a health crisis into a Napoleonic theater of power.
Landmark work of Romantic OrientalismThéodore Chassériau06
The Tepidarium
The Tepidarium combines study of the body, ancient decor and oriental imagination.
Landmark work of Romantic Orientalism
Works to discover
Four views on romantic orientalism
Gros, Chassériau, Ingres and Delacroix show how the image goes from propaganda to the constructed nude, then from the workshop to travel memories.
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The narrative scenes gain a large format; portraits and figures can remain vertical. Dark, black or patinated gold wood will support contrasts.
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