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[email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES RE-PRESENTING THE HAREM: ORIENTALIST FEMALE ARTISTS AND THE 19TH CENTURY OTTOMAN EMPIRE BY MEGAN MCDANIEL A Thesis submitted to the Department of Middle Eastern Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with Honors in the Major Degree Awarded: Spring, 2014 McDaniel 2 The members of the Defense Committee approve the thesis of Megan McDaniel defended on April 9, 2014. ______________________________ Dr. Will Hanley Thesis Director ______________________________ Dr. Peter Garretson Outside Committee Member ______________________________ Dr. Zeina Schlenoff Committee Member ______________________________ Dr. Lynn Jones Committee Member McDaniel 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES 11 3. THE ORIENT BY PEN 19 4. CANVASES BEHIND THE HAREM CURTAIN 31 5. CONCLUSION 48 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Théodore Chassériau, Scène de Harem, Femme Mauresque à sa toilette, 1854, pp. 6. Figure 2. Georges Rochegrosse, The Slave and the Lion, n.d. p. 7. Figure 3. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’s Grande Odalisque, 1814, p. 8. Figure 4. Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, The Odalisque, n.d. p, 32. Figure 5. Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumamm, The Princess Nazili Hanum, 1875, p. 36. Figure 6. Henriette Browne, Une Joueuse de flute (intérieur de harem, Constantinople, 1860), 1861, p. 40. Figure 7. Henriette Browne, Une Visite (intérieur de harem, Constantinople, 1860) 1861, p.