A selection of European Orientalist paintings provides a firsthand outsider view of a once-vibrant interaction.

French Orientalist painting took off with Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1798, the year in which Delacroix was born.

Forbes, who died in 1990, was an avid collector of everything from antique toys to Fabergé eggs to Orientalist paintings.

Orientalist Auction The market for Orientalist paintings has long been dominated by a small, passionate group of collectors.

Said was mainly concerned with literature in the widest sense, especially French literature, and did not cover visual art and Orientalist painting.

She is considered a pioneer in Orientalist painting.

The Orientalist paintings go on view today.

Today, the walls are again covered with Orientalist paintings, some of them by fine, little-known Italian painters, and rare Ottoman textiles.

In addition to his Orientalist paintings, he documented, painted in and participated in different exhibitions.

One-sided female nudity has also been depicted in art, particularly in the Orientalist paintings of the 19th-century.