As a result of Napoleon's campaign in Egypt from 1798 to 1801, the scientific, economic, political and cultural appropriation of the Orient by the Occident began. One of the earliest was Heinrich von Mayr, who initially trained as a genre painter, battle painter and horse painter with his stepfather Christian Friedrich Fues and Albert Reindel before becoming a cabinet painter in 1838 for the travel-loving Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, father of the later Austrian Empress Elisabeth, known as Sissi. In the same year the artist accompanied him on an eight-month journey to Nubia, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Malta, from which two publications grew: Picturesque Views from the Orient, 1839, and Genre Pictures from the Orient, 1846-50. Her lithographic illustrations based on drawings by Heinrich von.
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