This document provides details on 19th century French Orientalist paintings that depict Jewish women, including listing many individual artworks and artists. It includes paintings of Jewish women in Algeria and Morocco, as well as biblical scenes depicting women from the Old Testament. The paintings portray Jews in domestic and social settings, as well as images of brides and depictions of women from the Bible. Many of the works are held in museums in Paris.

1. Jewish Women and Identity in
19th C. French Orientalist Paintings
Paige Dansinger

2. Theodore Chasseriau. Jewish Women on a Balcony, 1849, detail.
Paris, Musee du Louvre (RF 3882).

3. Theodore Chasseriau. Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine. 1846, 1851.
Private Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, (1996.285)

4. Theodore Chasseriau. Young Moorish Woman Nursing Her Child, (detail), 1850.

5. Theodore Chasseriau. Jewish Woman of Algiers Seated on the Ground, 1846.
Watercolor over graphite. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (64.118).
Theodore Chasseriau. Jewish Woman of Algiers, Seated and Seen Full Face;
and Jewish Woman in Left Profile, 1846. Graphite with watercolor. Paris, Musee
du Louvre (RF24416).

6. Theodore Chasseriau. Five Studies of Women in Oriental Costumes, 1847.
Paris, Musee du Louvre (RF 24340)

7. Theodore Chasseriau. Bust-Length Study of an Arab Woman, Seen Full Face, 1846.
Graphite on beige paper. Paris, Musee du Louvre (RF 5142)
Theodore Chasseriau. Portrait of Aicha Ben Gerbaz, 1846. Graphite. Private
Collection.

8. Theodore Chasseriau. Jewish Family in Constantine, 1850 or 1851. Musee du Grenoble

9. Theodore Chasseriau. Commerce Brings People Together (Eastern Merchants on a Western
Shore), 1844-48. Paris, Musee de Louvre (RF 3152).

10. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Turkish Bath. Paris, Musee du Louvre.

11. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Odalisque with Slave, 1839.

12. Eugene Delacroix. The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827.

13. Eugene Delacroix. Women of Algiers in Their Apartments, 1834.

14. Theodore Chasseriau. Moorish Woman Leaving the Bath in the Seraglio, or
Interior of a Harem, 1854. Strasbourg, Musee des Beaux-Arts (1429).

15. Theodore Chasseriau. Bath in a Seraglio, or Woman Leaving the Bath, or The
Bath, Interior of the Seraglio in Constantine, 1849, detail. Paris, Musee du
Louvre (RF 3885).

16. Theodore Chasseriau. Moorish Dancers, 1849. Paris, Musee du Louvre, (RF 3879)

17. Theodore Chasseriau. Woman and Little Girl from Constantine with a
Gazelle, 1849. Houston. Museum of Fine Arts.

18. Frederic Bazille. The Toilette, 1869-70.

19. Gustav Moreau. Cleopatra, 1887, detail.

20. Camille Corot. Young Algerian
Woman Lying on the Grass, 1871-73.
Auguste Renior. Woman of Algiers
or Odalisque, 1870. National
Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester
Dale Collection.

21. Jean-Leon Gerome. The Great Bath at Brusa. Private Collection.
Paul-Louis Bouchard. After the Bath. Private Collection.
Jean Lecomte du Nouy. White Slave, 1888. Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes.

22. Jean-Leon Gerome. The Narghile Lighter. Gallery Keops, Geneva.
Eugene Guerard. Harem Scene, 1851. Private collection.
Paul-Desire Trouillebert. The Harem Servant, 1874. Musee des Beaux-Arts Jules Cheret, Nice.

23. Ange Tissier. An Algerian and her Slave, 1860. Musee National des Arts d’Afrique
et d’Oceanie, Paris.
Pierre-Marie Beyle. Bridal Finery, Algeria. Galerie Casa-Bella/Intemporel, Paris.

24. Eugene Delacroix
The Jewish Bride, 1832
Paris
Eugene Delacroix
Saada, The Wife of
Abraham Benchimol
and Preciada, One of
their Daughters
Tangier, 1832
Eugene Delacroix,
A Jewish Woman of
Tangier in Festive
Costume, 1832.

25. Charles-Emile Vernet-Lecomte
Femme Juive de Tanger, Paris, 1886
Jean Bescancenot
Juive de Sale', Costumes du Moroc
Paris-Horizons de France, 1942.

26. Roger Bezombes. Moroccan Bride, Courtesy of Roger Bezcomes, Paris.
Theodore Leblanc. Muslim Woman’s Visiting Costume for a Marriage, watercolor.
Theodore Leblanc. Haroufoah; Muslim Bride, watercolor. Cabinet des Estampes,
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

27. Edouard Debat-Ponsan. The Daughters of Jephthah, 1876.

28. Leon Cogniet. The Abduction of Rebecca, oil sketch, 1828.
Henri-Leopold Levy. Herod’s Wife, 1872.

29. Horace Vernet. Judah and Tamar, 1840.
Horace Vernet. Hagar Banished by Abraham, 1837.

30. Theodore Chasseriau. Esther Preparing to Be Presented to King Ahasuerus,
or The Toilette of Esther, 1841. Paris, Musee du Louvre (RF 3900)

31. Theodore Chasseriau. The Toilette of Esther, 1841.
Graphite. Paris, Musee du Louvre (RF 25936)

32. Leon Benouville. Esther, 1844.