HOT PAINTINGS

Salome painting by the belgian painter Léon Herbo (1850-1907).

One of the most popular subjects at the end of the 19th century was Salome. Different to older paintings she appears now as the incarnation of exotism and seduction. Oscar Wilde brought her to the theatre and a little later Richard Strauss wrote an adaption for the opera.
She was THE women of the fin de siecle.

Many artists like the american painter Robert Henri (1865–1929) transferred the old myth to their modern world of nightclubs and bars. Salome appeared as the prototype of the modern vamp or femme fatale.

Danae visited by Zeus, who turned himself into a golden shower was a very poppular subject for artists since the Renaissance. Here the version a of a french painter called Alexandre Jacques Chantron (1842-1918).

Here a scene called "The Harem Bath" by the french painter Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856), who specialised in historical and exotic scenes, which he normally mixed up.

Two paintings by Alphonse-Étienne Dinet (1861- 1929). He lived many years with a Berber tribe in the Algerian Sahara. Some are saying he painted there the "daily life". But if we look at the paintings above - and he painted a lot like these - we think that he painted more what the european art market expected: naked little girls, with nice tits!!

Two more odaliques by the french painter Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923). The first painting got the enigmatic name "harem girls".

Originally odalisques were harem-slaves. But in the 19th century they became a great fashion in art. They became the hot wet dreams of many artists. Oriental women, willing slaves ready for love at any moment when their master made a single move with a finger.

So at first one of our absolute favourites. Its from the french painter Paul Désiré Trouillebert, who called it "The Harem Servant" (1874).