Abstract
Delacroix painted Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement in 1834 after he was back from his journey in Morocco and Algeria which had profoundly influenced him,. In 1954, after having revisited many painters such as Velasquez or Monet, Picasso decided to revisit Delacroix's Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement by creating fifteen paintings and two lithographs, all named "Femmes dealer". If Delacroix could be linked to the colonialist and Oriental movements, Picasso was rather against colonization. Each painting represented women of Algiers even if it was made in a very different painting style. Nevertheless, according to their different trajectories, it could be expected that the images of the "native" population in those paintings were completely opposed. In what ways were those "Femmes d'Alger" different?
