1854
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Greek Slave is a 1854 by George Baxter, a Impressionism work, depicting Aphrodite, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a marble statue of a nude woman standing on a pedestal draped in red fabric. The statue holds a chain, and a crowd of people in old-fashioned clothes watches from behind. The background has a rich, dark room with gold accents and a framed painting on the wall. The statue looks like the goddess Aphrodite, but it’s placed in a way that makes it feel like a real person trapped in a fancy display. The artist used soft lighting to highlight her smooth skin against the dark red curtains. Next, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A Baxter-process print from 1854 features a dome-topped image with a gold border, depicting Hiram Powers’s sculpture *The Greek Slave* as displayed at the Great Exhibition. The print shows a life-sized, nude female figure standing with hands bound by chains, positioned on a pedestal beneath a red canopy.
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George Baxter (1804–1867) was an English artist and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. Though colour printing had been developed in China centuries before,…
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