Focus on An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh and explain the Artist's background.
Elisabeth Baumann was educated at the art academy in Düsseldorf in 1838–1845. In 1846, she married the Danish sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau in Rome and moved to Copenhagen.Throughout her life, Jerichau-Baumann travelled widely. In the 1850s, she visited the Middle East and North Africa on pleasure trips with her husband. She later visited Turkey, Greece, and Egypt on two more trips, in 1869–1870 and again in 1874–1875, now with the express reason of painting different motifs in the popular Orientalist style. The Orientalist movement had gained prominence with artists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme. In the 1830s, Martinus Rørbye was the first Danish artist to produce paintings from the region. Henriette Browne was the first artist to offer a female perspective on the Orientalist subject matter.
Copenhagen Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Martinus Rørbye Orientalist Rome Henriette Browne Eugène Delacroix Jean-Léon Gérôme Jens Adolf Jerichau Düsseldorf