A cut-off, golden mirror slopes down on the top left side, while a somewhat, slanted, but partially opened window can be seen in the center of the background.
A cut-off, golden mirror slopes down on the top left side, while a somewhat, slanted, but partially opened window can be seen in the center of the background. Shoes and pillows lie strewn about a floor whose color matches the wall and the outfits of the persons depicted. Rich splashes of red break up the composition as a black serving woman, who is turning back to face the languorous trio [*] sitting in front of a hookah, is walking towards the right of the painting. Presenting a scene that could be interpreted as a more peaceful version of the same court depicted in its creator's previous orientalist masterpiece The Death of Sardanapalus, FTP, identify this 1834 work whose title figures inhabit a harem interior in North Africa, a work by Eugene Delacroix.
A cut-off, golden mirror slopes down on the top left side, while a somewhat, slanted, but partially opened window can be seen in the center of the background.
{Women of Algiers}