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Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for western appropriation of the Orient. In "Intimate Outsiders", the art historian Mary Roberts brings to light a body of harem imagery that was created through a dynamic process of cultural exchange. Roberts focuses on images produced by nineteenth-century European artists and writers who were granted access to harems in the urban centres of Istanbul and Cairo. Invited guests, these Europeans were "intimate outsiders" within the women's quarters of elite Ottoman households.At the same time, elite Ottoman women were offered intimate access to European culture through their contact with these foreign travellers. Roberts draws on a range of sources including paintings, photographs, and travelogues discovered in archives in Britain, Turkey, Egypt, and Denmark.She rethinks the influential harem works of the realist painter John Frederick Lewis, a British artist living in Cairo during the 1840s, whose works were granted an authoritative status by his British public despite the actual limits of his insider knowledge. Unlike Lewis, British women were able to visit Ottoman harems, and from the mid-nineteenth century onward they did so in droves.Writing about their experiences in published travelogues, they undermined the idea that harems were the subject only of male fantasies. The elite Ottoman women who orchestrated these visits often challenged their guests' misapprehensions about harem life, and a number of them exercised power as patrons, commissioning portraits from European artists. Their roles as art patrons defy western ideas of the harem woman as passive odalisque.

Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Associate Professor in British Art at the University of Sydney.

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Intimate Outsiders 1
Part 1: John Frederick Lewis's Harem Paintings
Chapter One. The Languid Lotus-Eater 19
Chapter Two. "Mr. Lewis's Oriental paradises" 38
Part 2: British Women's Travelogues
Chapter Three. Pleasures in Detail 59
Chapter Four. Being Seen 80
Chapter Five. Sartorial Adventures and Satiric Narratives 92
Part 3: Harem Portraiture
Chapter Six. The Politics of Portraiture behind the Veil 109
Chapter Seven. Oriental Dreams 128
Epilogue 150
Notes 157
Selected Bibliography 177
Index 187
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