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A painting with this title is described as having an “absence of history” in a Linda Nochlin essay titled for an “imaginary” location. That painting with this title is located in the Clark in Williamstown, Massachusetts along with its artist’s other painting The Slave Market. Visits to the Jardins de Plantes inspired the depiction of the vegetation and a pink-feathered bird in the bottom left of a painting with this title. A frieze in a painting with this title contains an excerpt from (*) Sura al-Baqarah above blue, Iznik-style panels. A painting with this title depicts a dark woman in a jungle environment (10[1])illuminated by the moonlight. A painting with this title was used as the cover for Edward Said’s Orientalism. (10[1])For 10 points, give this common title of paintings by Henri Rousseau and Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting a figure bewitching a reptile. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: The Snake Charmer [accept La Charmeuse de Serpents]
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Jordan Brownstein"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question broPahkin' the Ahgo10110
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Michael Kearney|madam|Hu up Jinning they Tao14110

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