The scene is a crowded street in an Arabian town during the Ottoman Empire, as depicted in a 19th-century Orientalist oil painting by Jean-Leon Gerome. The painting depicts a market street, and the buildings in the background feature traditional Arabic architecture with geometric details around the doorways and windows. The men and women in the painting are wearing colorful traditional Arabic clothing. In the foreground, the focus of the oil painting is a man wearing traditional Arabic clothing holding the reins of a large camel, gesturing to another man in traditional Arabic clothing.
