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This painting of an Egyptian farm worker is among the most striking of Jerichau Baumann's oriental scenes. It is an excellent example of her keen sense for the erotic and the sensuous. The nudity beneath the sheer silk fabric, the exotic jewellery, the reddening evening sky, and the dark colours all infuse it with a sensuous quality that must have had a strong impact in the 1870s, a time when the body was still viewed with suspicion.
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