Currently, Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine is located in the MET Museum in New York City. This painting represents the art movement of Orientalism. This was from Chassériau’s time in Algeria, when painting the people of the east was very popular. A fun fact about this, Chassériau sketched this painting in his notebook in 1846 and then went back to France and painted it by 1851, nearly five years later. I selected to share this piece of work because of the way it was painted. Just the clothing style and because the women look so muscular. A lot of the women in paintings are feminine or naked and in this painting the women are covered head to toe and muscular. I just appreciate it, even though there is a good chance there is a big mixture of cultures here because that is something Orientalism artists did.
