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The Snake Charmer
The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas Orientalist painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. It is signed "J.L Gerome 1880".
Subject.
The painting depicts a naked boy standing on a small carpet in the centre of a room with blue-tiled walls, facing away from the viewer, holding a python which coils around his waist and over his shoulder, while an older man sits to his right playing a fipple flute. The performance is watched by
blue", but since the 1980s, they have been bound in glossy "Persian blue".
Persian carpets
- When blue Persian carpets are produced in Iran, "medium Persian blue" is one of the most commonly used tones of blue.
External links.
- Painting "The Snake Charmer" (1870) by Jean-Leon Gerome shows a snake charmer in a Persian market with Persian blue tiles in background