Salammbô (1921) by Henri Adrien Tanoux
Today's wallpaper distraction is Salammbô by Henri Adrien Tanoux. Salammbô is the heroine of a novel by Flaubert set after the First Punic War and, amazingly for someone as non-literary as me, I have actually read it. Tanoux (1865-1923) was a later orientalist painter producing many pictures of sumptuous harem girls at the beginning of the twentieth century when the genre was already becoming unfashionable. Forgotten for many years, his pictures are becoming collectible again and go for upwards of $75.000.
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