Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath


Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath is an 1856 oil painting by the French artist Théodore Chassériau. 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. 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.