Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem) [SEP] creator
Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem)
Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem), sometimes known as Interior of a Harem in Montmartre (Parisian Women Dressed in Algerian costumes), is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, completed 1872, which Renoir created in homage to Eugène Delacroix's "Women of Algiers in their Apartment" (1834, Louvre). It was rejected for entry to the 1872 Paris Salon, disliked by the artist and eventually sold for a small sum as part of a larger
mid-nineteenth century. "L'Algérienne" is untypical of his output in depicting a named living subject in an oriental costume. Renoir did create a number of Orientalist works including "Woman of Algiers ("Odalisque")" (1870) and "Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem)" (1872), however, both were homages to existing works rather than portraits of living people, Ingres' "Grande Odalisque" (1814, Louvre) in the first case and Delacroix's "Women of Algiers in