Pool in a Harem (French: Piscine dans un harem) is an 1876 genre painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.Peakman p.201Palmer p.106 It features a scene in a bathhouse in the Middle Eastern harem. Produced in the academic style popular during the era, it combines elements of nude art and orientalism. It features amongst others Emma Dupont, a regular model of Gérôme. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1876 in Paris.https://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/objects/91885 Today the painting is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-collection/37799

See also The Great Bath at Bursa, an 1883 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme featuring a similar theme

References

Bibliography Palmer, Allison Lee. Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. Peakman, Julie. Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires. Reaktion Books, 2019.