She later visited Turkey, Greece, and Egypt on two more trips, in 1869–1870 and again in 1874–1875, now with the express reason of painting different motifs in the popular Orientalist style.

The Orientalist movement had gained prominence with artists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

[2] Jerichau-Baumann painted An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh upon her return from her journey to Turkey, Greece and Egypt in 1874–1875.

After his death, the painting was sold by his widow Clara Iuel at a Bruun Rasmussen auction in 1977 for DKK 16,000 to Hamburg-based Ludwig Karl Erich Christian Detlev Alexander Graf zu Reventlow (1941–).

[3] On 27 November 1996, it was again put up for sale at a Bruun Rasmussen auction but failed to reach the minimum price of DKK one million.

[3] Jerichau-Baumann’s painting depicts a young woman who is wearing a fairly transparent garment while looking directly at the viewer.