Alfred Dabat (French, 1869–1935). The Red Dancer. Photo credit: Hervé Lewandowski. ©RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource NY.

Born in Algeria and educated in France, Dabat is known for brightly colored paintings of market and street life in Algeria and Morocco. His works have been considered “Orientalist,” a school of art that depicted (sometimes stereotypically) exotic scenes of Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures—particularly, as in Dabat's case, North African cultures, where France was a colonial power. Due to excessive trunk lean, this dancer's center of gravity may be outside her base of support, and, at first glance, it appears that she might lose her balance as she tries to adjust her heavy gold headdress.