Algerian Girl  1881

[url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20556332]Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/url] [br] Renoir traveled to the French colony of Algeria twice in 1881, seeking the dazzling light and exotic subject matter made famous (and marketable) by Eugène Delacroix, a great Romantic painter, some fifty years before. Frustrated by the reluctance of Muslim women to pose for him, Renoir of...