Beauties

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was the foremost French Orientalist painter — a technical virtuoso whose travels to Egypt, Turkey, and the Holy Land produced images of such photographic exactitude that viewers mistook his paintings for early photographs. His works — slave markets, mosques, hammams, gladiatorial arenas — defined the Western imagination of the East for a generation and remain the most collected and debated works of 19th-century academic painting. Pollice Verso (1872), his gladiatorial masterpiece, directly inspired the visual language of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. His Veiled Circassian Beauty remains one of the most technically audacious paintings ever made.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.

Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was a Swiss-French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis, whose bold, flattened forms and psychological tension anticipated the alienated imagery of the 20th century. His woodcuts revolutionised the medium; his paintings of interiors, nudes, and domestic scenes carry an unsettling stillness that distinguishes him entirely from his Impressionist contemporaries.

Printed on Hahnemühle German Etching paper — the same archival stock museum studios use — through a 12-ink giclée process that holds colour the way memory holds detail: precisely, completely. Collector-grade, by design.