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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The subject of this oval picture is a young woman standing in a courtyard. Her clothes, black curly hair and red head-dress are probably meant to identify her as a woman from Turkey, the Middle East or the north of Africa. In the painter's time these cultures were perceived as exotic and licentious. She holds a broken tambourine which, with her mournful attitude and bare breast, signifies her lost innocence. The painting is rather ambiguous in that this narrative element could be meant as a warning, or it might have added to the picture's appeal. | Subjects: | allegory (lost innocence); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Frappa, Jose (French painter, 1854-1904) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8544... | Go to resource |
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