Santiago Rusiñol I Prats (Catalan/Spanish, 1861-1931) El montseny, ca. 1908

Joseph Llimona y Bruguera (Spanish, 1864-1934) The flowers, ca.1925-33 Fundació Pau Casals, El Vendrell, Spain

Pierre Dupuis (French, 1833-1915) La Vague, 1892

Martín Rico y Ortega (Spanish, 1833-1908) Seville, 1875 The Walters Art Museum

Martín Rico y Ortega (Spanish, 1833-1908) La Huerta del Retiro, Seville, 1875 The Walters Art Museum

Pierre Ribera (Spanish, 1867-1932) Bozzetto for a ceiling fresco of the casino of Monte Carlo, n.d.

John F. Francis (American, 1808-1886) Mary Elizabeth Francis, the Artist's Daughter, ca.1840 Smithsonian American Art Museum

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Whisperings of Love, 1889 New Orleans Museum of Art

Zacarías González Velázquez (Spanish, 1763-1834) Manuela González Velázquez playing the piano, Detail, 1820

Alphonse Mucha (Czechoslovakian, 1860-1939) Spring Night, ca.1910

Konrad Grob (Swiss, 1819-1904) Peasant girl with roses, n.d.

Victor Gabriel Gilbert (French, 1847-1933) Élégante à la rose, 1879

Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862-1938) The Bath, ca.1892-93

Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862-1938) Three Girls Reading, 1907

François-Auguste Biard (French, 1799-1882) L'Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies françaises le 27 avril 1848, 1849 Musée d'art Roger-Quillot, Clermont-Ferrand en dépôt à Versailles Exposition Le Modèle noir, musée d'Orsay, 2019 Quartier Faubourg-Saint-Germain, Paris, Île-de-France

Marcel Antoine Verdier (French, 1817-1856) Le Châtiment des quatre piquets, 1849 Exposition Le Modèle noir, musée d'Orsay, 2019 Quartier Faubourg-Saint-Germain, Paris, Île-de-France

Henryk Siemiradzki (Polish, 1843-1902) The girl or the vase?, 1887

The Black Sea Slave Trade gave rise to the figure of the Odalisque, that is the beautiful, white slave girl, a figure of quintessential beauty. Learn more; “Why White People are Called Caucasian.” - Professor Nell Painter of Princeton University