Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath (French: Femme mauresque sortant du bain) is an 1856 oil painting by the French artist Théodore Chassériau.Sandoz p.290 Orientalist in tone, it combines element of genre painting and nude art. It depicts a young woman of the harem drying herself after a 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.Guégan p.306 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.
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Bibliography Guégan, Stéphane. Théodore Chassériau, 1819–1856: The Unknown Romantic. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. Sandoz, Marc Théodore Chassériau, 1819–1856: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et estampes. 1974.