# La Juivre d'Alger \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CORDIER, Charles-Henri-Joseph]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Onyx-marble, bronze ## Commentary For the Jewish Woman of Algiers, a predominantly white onyx-marble is matched with a white enamel fired into the bronze floral pattern of the blouse. Brightly coloured enamels make stripes in the turban and in the brooches that pin it to the hair. Inset amethyst eyes gleam against the smooth surface of the woman's skin. ## Related artworks - [African Venus]() - [African Venus]() - [La Capresse des Colonies]() - [La Capresse des Colonies \(The Goat Tender of the Colonies\)]() - [La Juivre d'Alger \(The Jewish Woman of Algiers\)]() - [La Juivre d'Alger \(The Jewish Woman of Algiers\)]() - [Love One Another]() - [Negro of the Sudan]() - [Said Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur \(Sudan\)]() - [Young Abyssinian Woman]() - [Young Girl from the Environs of Rome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()