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Une joueuse de flute ( a flute player). This is an interior of a harem in Constantinople, 1860 by Henrietta Browne.
There is a slight error, because women in an interior setting, in the company of each other never cover their faces. Even Browne has to some extent played into the preconceived notion of the Middle Eastern female by shrouding their faces for the European male's gaze.
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