Bathroom

He also admired enormously the work of Eugene Delacroix, particularly his orientalist paintings, and also his paintings of nymphs. He was to incorporate these orientalist themes into many of his paintings. His lameness meant he could not travel extensively, as the other artists that he admired had done. He used his imagination and the paintings of others such as Delacroix for inspiration when he was approaching orientalist themes.

Women of the Seraglio

Venus Disarming Cupid

The Louvre has a substantial collection of works by Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Pena, as does the Wallace Collection in London.

In the Fontainbleau Fores, 1860

In the Forest