The Slave Market (French: Le Marché d'esclaves) is an 1836 genre painting by the French artist Horace Vernet.Ruutz-Rees p.28-29 It depicts a slave market in the Middle East. Vernet produced a number of orientalist works following his visits to North Africa in the wake of the French Conquest of Algeria.Behdad & Gartlan p.13 Today the painting is in the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.https://artblart.com/tag/horace-vernet-slave-market/
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Bibliography Behdad, Ali & Gartlan, Luke. Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation. Getty Publications, 2013. Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017. Ruutz-Rees, Janet Emily. Horace Vernet. Scribner and Welford, 1880.