In a sunlit courtyard, a buyer opens the mouth of a naked woman to inspect her teeth while the dealer and other captives wait. Jean-Léon Gérôme set the scene in an imagined North African or Middle Eastern market and painted it with meticulous finish. It is now a standard example of Orientalist painting and of the fantasies it offered European viewers.
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In the shaded arcade behind, another group of buyers inspects a nude man.
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