The Slave Market

Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. Gérôme is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire".

The Slave Market is an 1866 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts a West Asian or North African setting where a man inspects the teeth of a nude, female Abyssinian slave in the context of the Barbary slave trade.