Courtry, Charles

Moorish Bath is an 1870 Orientalist genre painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts a scene in a Turkish Bath somewhere in the Middle East, featuring a woman likely to be a Circassian and an African attendant. The painting was exhibited at the 1873 World Fair held in Vienna.Today it is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, having been acquired in 1924. A print based on the picture was produced by the engraver Charles Courtry in 1874. Inspired by his 1868 trip to Egypt, Gérôme produced a number of scenes of Oriental bathhouses over the next twenty years of which this was the first. These offered an opportunity to contrast a more exotic model with the traditional Academic nude. Another larger, similarly, themed-work Moorish Bath is now in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.