Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath

Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath
ArtistThéodore Chassériau
Year1856
TypeOil on canvas, genre painting
Dimensions67 cm × 54 cm (26 in × 21 in)
LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg

Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath (French: Femme mauresque sortant du bain) is an 1856 oil painting by the French artist Théodore Chassériau.[1] Orientalist in tone, it combines element of genre painting and nude art. It depicts a young woman of the harem drying herself after a Turkish bath. It is sometimes known by the alternative title Interior of a Harem, a title also given to a painting Chassériau produced earlier in the decade.[2] It has been in the collection of the Louvre since, but has been on long-term loan to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg.[3]

References

  1. ^ Sandoz p.290
  2. ^ Guégan p.306
  3. ^ "Femme mauresque sortant du bain". collections.louvre.fr. Retrieved 2025-12-13.

Bibliography

  • Guégan, Stéphane. Théodore Chassériau, 1819–1856: The Unknown Romantic. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.
  • Sandoz, Marc Théodore Chassériau, 1819–1856: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et estampes. 1974.