Élisa Joinville (active in the second half of the 19th

Élisa Joinville (active in the second half of the 19th century)

Odalisque with parrot

Oil on board, cm 24 x 33 

With frame, cm 43 x 51 

Signed and dated (18)75 bottom left

This small table represents a group of odalisques, or concubines who made up the harems of the Turkish sultans of the Ottoman Empire, in a lush garden with exotic vegetation and typical of the Mediterranean climate. The porch behind them suggests that it is the inner garden of a great palace, perhaps that of a sultan or a pasha; The presence of these green spaces was typical in the luxurious Turkish and middle-eastern residences and the geographical location is confirmed by the clothes worn by women, the carpet and the hookah. The taste for the exotic, also witnessed by the presence of the parrot, gave birth during the nineteenth century to a pictorial current known as orientalism, which was born in France following the Napoleonic expedition in Egypt and then developed, also thanks to the fervent colonialism, within the pictorial tradition of other European countries throughout the century. This genre tended to represent typical settings and atmospheres of the oriental world full of charm, exotic mystery and often also a certain sensuality, for the romantic tendency to see in the exotic world an environment free from Western bourgeois conventions. In this work we find the same canons with a tone of voluptuous amenity given by odalische intents to play with the nice bird. Similar subjects are found in the production of this French painter lived in the second half of the nineteenth century: courtship scenes, harems, oriental settings and love allegories bring the same nuance seductive and at the same time naively playful.  In this work we find the same canons with a tone of voluptuous amenity given by odalische intents to play with the nice bird. Similar subjects are found in the production of this French painter lived in the second half of the nineteenth century: courtship scenes, harems, oriental settings and love allegories bring the same nuance seductive and at the same time naively playful. The similarity of subjects and homonymy suggests a relationship with the painter Antoine-Victor-Edmond-Madeleine Joinville, born in 1801 in Paris and died in 1849; the figurative matches between this table and that made by Antoine entitled The Sultan’s Favorite Women tighten even more the link between the two, although Joinville also draws inspiration from other painters such as Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883) and his Spring. The painting made with quick touches of body, with shaded contours and bright colors tells us instead of a technical influence derived from late Romanticism, a current that was established in the nineteenth century and had great exponents in France such as Delacroix, Ingres and Charles Landelle, in which the themes and subjects of orientalism are often found

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