A black and a white woman are both in a Turkish steam bath. The dark girl is topless so that her breasts are exposed on the artwork and has a large gold-coloured bowl and a shiny headscarf on. Furthermore she is wearing a red necklace with large metal coins. The white nude model is portrayed on her back and her back, buttocks and legs are naked. Furthermore, her shoulders and a tit are exposed. The model sits on a wall covered with tiles.
All in all a sensual picture with romance and eroticism.
A steam bath is a warm room of 40 to 60 degrees Celsius with high humidity. Usually the bather is naked and, unlike in the sauna, does not sit on a towel. Steam baths used to be mainly found in the Turkish-Ottoman Empire as part of a hammam.
Jean Leon Gerome (Vesoul, France, 11 May 1824 - Paris, 10 January 1904) was a French painter. In 1865 Gérôme was elected as a member of the Institut de France.
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