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Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem)
is a painting by the French artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
completed 1872. Renoir created the painting, which acknowledged the artificial nature of much
Orientalist
painting by making it clear that these were Parisian women in costume, in homage to
Eugène Delacroix
's
Women of Algiers
(1834). Rejected for entry to the 1872
Paris Salon
and disliked by the artist, it was eventually sold for a small sum as part of a larger lot. It is now in the
National Museum of Western Art
, Tokyo.
Painting:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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