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Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Dame turque sur divan
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Held by the artist.

Dame turque sur divan

Artist/Maker (Greece (active Algiers and Egypt), active 1860-1889)
Dateca. 1860-1889 (printed 1992)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsSight: 9 3/4 x 12 in. (24.8 x 30.5 cm)
Mat: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Terms
    Object number2006.34.1.1
    DescriptionThis salon view reveals a carefully staged and costumed odalisque, in a photograph taken by two brothers of Greek nationality known only as G. and C. Zangaki, who lived and worked in Egypt and Palestine beginning around 1870. Like Hippolyte Arnoux, who documented with his camera the construction of the Suez Canal, the Zangakis worked out of Port Said. Photographs like this answered a popular demand for the odalisque, a purported glimpse inside of the fabled harems of the Orient. Such disparate literary sources as Sir Richard Burton's translation of the Arabian Nights and travelers' descriptions of the Almées, or dancing courtesans of Egypt, blended together in the Western imagination, blurring the line between lascivious courtesans and the sequestered inhabitants of the harem, resulting in coquettish images like this one.
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    Collections
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Adelphoi Zangaki
    ca. 1860-1889 (printed 1992)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Adelphoi Zangaki
    ca. 1860-1889 (printed 1992)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Adelphoi Zangaki
    ca. 1860-1889 (printed 1992)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Battista Dossi
    ca. 1520-1530
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    late 19th to early 20th century (printed 1992)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Valentine Cameron Prinsep
    ca. 1880
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    late 19th to early 20th century (printed 1992)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    ca. 300-800
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    George Benjamin Luks
    ca. 1900
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Nigeria, Yoruba people
    20th century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Jacob Jordaens
    ca. 1620-1625