Your art history post for today: by Swiss artist Jean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789), A Lady in Turkish Dress and Her Servant, ca. 1750, oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. (72.4 x 57.2 cm), The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. #arthistory #oilpainting #Art
From the museum: “Liotard’s painting of the women in the hamam is staged. Although they are dressed in Turkish clothing, the women are not Turkish Muslims but Franks, a catchall term used to describe Europeans living in the Ottoman Empire. As a European man, Liotard had no access to Muslim women, nor did he or any man, Frankish or Muslim, have access to the bath when women were present. Liotard’s painting thus presents the viewer with a fictional glimpse into the unseen lives of women in the empire.”
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