The oil painting Die Favoritin by the German Orientalist artist Adolf Seel (1829–1907) shows a ‘harem’ scene with a woman sitting on the floor of a richly decorated interior, with carpets spread out on the floor and a hanging on the wall. A coloured stucco and glass window is depicted in the upper left-hand section of the painting. The window shows a symmetrically arranged geometrical motif with a stylized red blossom in the centre. The glass in the window is predominantly white, yellow, orange, red, and blue.

The German Orientalist artist Adolf Seel (1829–1907) executed the oil painting Die Favoritin in 1883. He did not do so on site during his visit to Egypt, but years later, in his European studio: between 1873 and 1874, Seel had visited Palestine and Egypt, from where he brought back studies and sketches, mainly of architectural monuments, that later served as a basis for his Orientalist paintings (Haja, & Wimmer, 2000, p. 146; Bénézit, 2006, p. 923; Rhein, 2003, p. 160).
Seel also depicted stucco and glass also in other Orientalist works set in Cairo, for example, in the background of his oil painting Sklavenmarkt in Kairo (1895, oil on canvas, 160 × 130cm, Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, A I 627).
A stucco and glass window can also be seen in a wood engraving after a work by Seel entitled ‘Harem eines Hauses aus der Chalifenzeit’, reproduced by the German Egyptologist and novelist Georg Ebers (1837–1898) in the first volume of his two-volume Aegypten in Bild und Wort, published in 1879 (IG_97). This was a sumptuously produced publication with c.700 wood engravings based on photographs of original works by forty renowned artists of the time that played a decisive role in shaping the perception of Egypt in the European imagination in the second half of the 19th century.