Rudolf Ottenfeld, Backgammon 1890
Bashi-Bazouks singing , Jean-Leon Gerome, 1868
Women of Algiers in their Room, Eugene Delacroix, 1834.
Eugene Delacroix's painting Women in Algiers, makes use of rich and deep colours, fixed women sitting around a narghile.
La Servante De Harem, Paul-Desire Trouillebert 1874
The harem handmaid, in this painting, the "beautiful and cold topless slave" holds a tray supporting a small narghile. The long hose coils up around the mast in five to six loops.
Odalisque and Slave, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres 1839
Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres creates an indolent atmosphere, an almost undressed woman, lies on a bed. In the foreground, to the right, discreetly stands a tiny narghile.
Ange Tissier, Une Algerienne, 1860
An Algerian woman and her slave features a woman, elegantly dressed in the old Turkish tradition, nonchalantly holding the hose of a narghile. She sits near a wooden table inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ebony.
Bashi-Bazouk Chieftain, Jean-Leon Gerome, 1881
Finally, the artist who most represented narghile, is Jean-Leon Gerome. The Bashi-Bazouk featured above was a chieftain of mercenary troops of the Ottoman Empire. The pleated skirt and light skin shows that this chieftain is of Balkan origin. These skirts are still worn today as ceremonial dress in the Greek military. Gerome's painting was so accurate in recording detail that scholars used them as ethnological records.
Allumeuse de Narghile by Jean-Leon Gerome
Another painting that deserves a mention is A Woman lighting a Narghile. A commentator noticed that there is a striking contrast between the nudity of the woman who carefully lights the narghile by the pool and others basking on the side of the pond, and a group of veiled women watching the scene, in the background, behind a hand-rail.
