Which French Romantic painter created 'Women of Algiers in Their Apartment'?

The French Romantic painter who created “Women of Algiers in Their Apartment” was Eugène Delacroix.

Delacroix painted two versions of the subject. The first was completed in Paris in 1834 after his 1832 journey to North Africa, and it is now in the Louvre. A second version followed between 1847 and 1849 and is held by the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. Both show women in an enclosed Algerian interior.

The paintings are important examples of Delacroix’s Orientalist work, combining careful attention to textiles, furnishings, clothing, and color with a European interpretation of Algerian domestic life. The 1834 version was purchased by King Louis Philippe and later transferred to the Louvre.

The title can cause confusion because it refers to a pair of paintings rather than one unique canvas. Ingres also painted Orientalist subjects, and Courbet was a major French painter, but neither created this work. Delacroix’s later influence reached artists including van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso.