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Subject and setting. The painting depicts a naked boy standing on a small carpet in the center of a room with blue-tiled walls, facing away from the viewer, holding a python which coils around his waist and over his shoulder, while an older man sits to his right playing a fipple flute.
Snake Charmer. c. 1879. Painted with minute precision based in part on actual places—Istanbul’s Topkapı palace inspired the tiled wall, while the stone floor resembles that of the mosque of Amr in Cairo— this scene presents a European fantasy of life in the Islamic world.
The Snake Charmer (Charmeur de Serpents) GeromeGérôme, Jean-Léon circa 1880-1890. New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, United States. Interior of courtyard, North Africa. Ten people...
His remark may seem surprising and even funny, yet everything about the Snake Charmer is new: the subject first of all, a black Eve in a disquieting Garden of Eden, charming a snake as...
In 1907, the celebrated modernist artist and the seminal figure of naive art, Henri Rousseau, created the perplexing The Snake Charmer painting.
Feb 4, 2011 · ClarkArtInstitute. 3.34K subscribers. 137. 20K views 12 years ago. Exotic and provocative, this meticuloulsy painted picture captures Gérôme's take on the mysteries of the Orient. The Snake...
The Snake Charmer (French: La Charmeuse de Serpents) is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree.
