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Parisiennes habillées en Algériennes
Parisian Women in Algerian Costume
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1872
National Museum of Western Art
Tokyo, Japan
About this painting
An homage to Delacroix's "Women of Algiers," a painting Renoir called "the most beautiful picture in existence" — though he never visited Algeria until 1881, nine years after imagining this harem scene in a Paris studio.
Painting Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
156 × 128.8 cm (61.4 × 50.7 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
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