ID: 700006165 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700006165	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

[A Moorish Woman with Her Maid] (photographic print; Félix Jacques Moulin (French photographer, 1802 - after 1...; about 1856; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 84.XO.431.31;)

Note: Seated woman and reclining woman. Jacques Antoine Moulin made this image during a trip to Algeria; nine years later, he included it in an album that he compiled to commemorate Napoleon III's trip there. A convention of Orientalist imagery, the subject of the sexually available female attended by a black maid subscribed to a stereotyped fantasy of non-European women. A Moorish woman reclines on a sofa stacked with pillows; disaffected, she looks away from the camera. Her skirts are pulled up to reveal bare thighs, and her right hand rests suggestively and deliberately between her legs. Her left arm is bare and raised: in her languor and dishevelment, she displays a sexual availability ordinarily reserved for private eyes. A black woman sits at the end of the sofa, looking bored and distrustful while cradling her mistress's bracelet-topped feet in one hand and resting the other on her calf. The background behind the two women has been cut out, presumably to heighten the visual impact by focusing attention on the sitters.

Titles:

[A Moorish Woman with Her Maid] (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Voyage de Sa Majesté Napoléon III... (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

photographic print [300127104] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs))

albumen print [300127121]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1856

Creator Display:

Félix Jacques Moulin (French photographer, 1802 - after 1869) [preferred,JPGM]

Moulin, Felix Jacques (French photographer, 1802-1879) [500118940]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 84.XO.431.31

Display Materials: Albumen silver print

	albumen process [300133274]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

Dimensions: Image: 18.1 x 22.8 cm (7 1/8 x 9 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Orientalism [300055784] (preferred,style)
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <culture and related concepts>, culture-related concepts, <cultural movements and attitudes>, exoticism)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Orientalism [300055784]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <culture and related concepts>, culture-related concepts, <cultural movements and attitudes>, exoticism) (AAT)

	eroticism [300249821]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, psychological concepts) (AAT)

	maid (servant) [300379706]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in service occupations>, servants, domestics (servants)) (AAT)

	reclining [300380165]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

	seated [300263970]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

	unknown Moorish (Moorish cultural designation) [500203860]
	.....(Unknown People by Culture) (ULAN)

	women (female humans) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Title inscribed in black ink by album compiler on recto mount.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Vues historique des principals villes de la province de Constantine, des mosquees, Ruines...(ms. title)

Sources and Contributors:
[A Moorish Woman with Her Maid]	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Voyage de Sa Majesté Napoléon III...	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM,VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)