The Slave Market is an 1866 history painting by French Academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Analysis of The Slave Market
The Slave Market by academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme shows a female chattel slave being inspected for health by a prospective buyer, possibly in North Africa or the Middle East. The woman’s passivity is signaled by the dropping of her arms in resignation. It was painted in 1866, nine years after Gérôme painted a similar work, titled Buying a Slave.
Jean-Léon Gérôme’s The Slave Market is in the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts in the United States.