Delacroix, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment

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Eugène Delacroix, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, 1834, oil on canvas, 180 × 229 cm (Musée du Louvre) speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

 

Additional resources

Orientalism

Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Art on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Romanticism on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Jennifer W. Olmsted,  “The Sultan’s Authority: Delacroix, Painting, and Politics at the Salon of 1845,” The Art Bulletin vol. 91, no. 1 (2009), pp. 83-106. 

Cite this page as: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Delacroix, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment," in Smarthistory, September 3, 2021, accessed March 22, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/delacroix-algiers/.