Carl Werner, Beauty with a Tambourine, 1867 Dahesh Museum of Art#NationalDogDayAn Orientalist who wa
Carl Werner, Beauty with a Tambourine, 1867 Dahesh Museum of Art#NationalDogDayAn Orientalist who was granted the rare of honor of being given permission to paint inside Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Werner is mostly known for his detailed architectural and landscape views.* In the Beauty with a Tambourine close attention has been paid to all the decorative details including the beauty and her little dog, a common characteristic of this type of painting. The Western male artist’s Orientalist fantasy of the languid female shut-away in a harem, awaiting one man’s pleasure, has blurred the lines a bit between the East and the West to include a lap dog that would be more likely to be found with an elegant European young lady.*Gallery Label -- source link
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