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Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine  1851

by Théodore Chassériau

Chassériau witnessed this scene and sketched it in his notebook during a trip to Algeria in 1846. From the ancient town of Constantine he wrote, "I have seen some highly curious things: primitive and overwhelming, touching and singular. At Constantine, which is high up in some enormous mountains, one sees the Arab people and the Jewish people [living] as they were at the b...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art