This painting, which is also known as Woman of Algiers, shows Renoir's passion for the romantic style of Rubens, and of course Delacroix, whose art Renoir admired very much.  Vollard claimed the voluptuous model was the wife of a rug merchant.

Odalisque 1870
Pierre August Renoir, 1841-1919, French
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
