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Eugène Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People, oil on canvas by Eugène Delacroix, 1830; in the Louvre, Paris.
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834) is a painting by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix. The work depicts three Arab women and their surroundings, rendered in a blaze of exquisitely warm color harmonies.1
This painting was one of the first works inspired by Delacroix's 1832 tour of North Africa, during which he visited Algeria, Spain, and Morocco. The trip served as a significant revelation for the artist, who found in the local people and their way of life a sense of nobility and beauty that he had not encountered in French academic Neoclassicism.1