revealing her décolletage and she now stares softly at the viewer with a warm, inviting gaze. The second painting was created fifteen years after the 1834 original. In comparison, the viewer can see the influence of time and nostalgia upon the interpretation of visual information. The slightly fantasied scene has been transformed into a picture of pure nostalgia. The European concept of the harem further implants itself within Delacroix's work, ultimately creating a painting that objectifies and eroticizes the Algerian women to a greater extent than the original 1834 version. See also Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1872. Footnotes References Bogl, Mary. "Using the Arts to teach Assia Djebar's "Femmes d'Alger dans leur apartment" The French Review,76,4 (2003):692-720 Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix Journal de Eugene Delacroix ... precede d'une etude sur le maitre par M. Paul Flat; notes et eclaircissements par MM. Paul Flat et Rene Piot ... E. Plon, Nourrit et cie., Paris 1893. (Various formats) Accessed on 13 September 2010 Delacroix, Eugène, and Néret, Giles. Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863: The Prince of Romanticism (Basic Art). Cologne: Taschen GmbH, 2000. Galland, Antoine. Arabian Nights London:Penguin Publishing, 1999. https://books.google.com/books?id=UUtwvhzE86UC&pg=PT319 Hagen, Rose-Marie, and Hagen, Rainer. What great paintings say, Volume 2 Cologne: Taschen Verlag, 2002. . Google Books Accessed on 13 September 2010 Harper, Mary J. "Picturing the East: A Hundred Years of European Orientalism. A Symposium" New York: Dahesh Museum, 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=4GnLHAAACAAJ Marrinan, Michael. Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800–1850 Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2009. . Noon, Parick, and Riopelle, Christopher. Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art London: National Gallery Company:London, 2015. Podger, Michael "Damnation, Dante and Decadence" why Eugène Delacroix is making a hero's Return" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/05/damned-souls-decadence-eugene-delacroix-hero Accessed: 5 April 2016. Roberts, Mary. Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Sessions, Jennifer E. By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria Cornell:Cornell University Press, 2015. https://books.google.com/books?id=EtBqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT35&dq=french+conquest+of+algeria+1830 Thornton, Lynne The Orientalists: Edition en langue anglaise 1992, ACR Edition ( https://books.google.com/books?id=j89YnPJ7CmMC&dq=delacroix+tangiers+1832+january) External links Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from North American Collections, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which discusses The Women of Algiers 1834 paintings Orientalist paintings Paintings by Eugène Delacroix Paintings in the Louvre by French artists Paintings in the collection of the Musée Fabre