 Great quantities found in excavation sites at Tanagra identified the city as the source of these figures, which were also exported to distant markets.The figures appealed to 19th century middle-class ideals of realism, and "Tanagra figures" entered the visual repertory of Europeans.Jean-Léon Gérôme created a polychromatic sculpture depicting the spirit of Tanagra, and one French critic described the fashionable women portrayed in the statuettes as "the "parisienne" of the ancient world".