Jean Leon Gerome The Carpet Merchant Rug Market Cairo Bazaar Poster
Gerome’s Carpet Merchant: turbaned buyers inspect a huge hanging rug in a Cairo courtyard. Exotic detail, museum-quality realism.
Description
Jean-Leon Gerome's famous Carpet Merchant captures a lively rug market before a mosque facade, with merchants unrolling brilliant carpets for robed onlookers. Every textile pattern and architectural detail is rendered with photographic care. A richly atmospheric piece for studies and world-travel-inspired rooms, and a distinguished gift for collectors of orientalist art.
