Pool in a Harem

{{Short description|Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme}}

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| image_file=File:HaremPool.jpg

| image_size=340px

| title=Pool in a Harem

| artist=Jean-Léon Gérôme

| year=1876

| medium=Oil on canvas, academic art

| height_metric=73.5

| width_metric=62

| metric_unit=cm

| imperial_unit=in

| museum=Hermitage Museum

| city= Saint Petersburg

}}

Pool in a Harem (French: Piscine dans un harem) is an 1876 genre painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.Peakman p.201 Palmer p.106 It features a scene in a bathhouse in the Middle Eastern harem. Produced in the academic style popular during the era, it combines elements of nude art and orientalism. It features amongst others Emma Dupont, a regular model of Gérôme. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1876 in Paris.https://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/objects/91885 Today the painting is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-collection/37799