Parisiennes in Algerian Costume or Harem  1872

[url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19895041]Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/url] [br] This is quintessential early Renoir. Although the painting purports to show a harem (the female quarters in a Muslim household), complete with alluring women, it is an imagined scene projected onto a room in Paris. Renoir had not yet visited North Africa and been directly exposed to Isla...