Delacroix produced this sumptuous watercolor on a trip to North Africa in 1832. He accompanied his friend the Count de Mornay on his mission as good-will ambassador to the Sultan of Morocco, Abd-er-Rahman II. Assigned to the delegation as dragoman was the Jewish interpreter Abraham Ben-Chimol (Abraham Benchimol) of Tangiers, who introduced the Frenchmen to his wife and to his daughter, pictured here in her bridal attire. In his "Journal," Delacroix described in extensive detail a Jewish wedding he attended in Tangiers on February 21, 1832.

Signature: [pen and brown ink, lower left]: Eug Delacroix

Comte Charles de Mornay ; Albert Hecht (Paris); Donor: Walter C. Baker

Robaut 500; MMA 1991.27; Escholier 1927

L'Orient et la peinture française au XIXe siècle, d'Eugène Delacroix à Auguste Renoir. 1930, p. 38, ill.

Jean Guiffrey Le Voyage de Eugène Delacroix au Maroc, IV, album ayant appartenu à M. le Comte de Mornay. Paris, 1909, cat. no. 9, p. 189.

Alfred-Ernest Robaut L'Oeuvre complet d'Eugène Delacroix: Peintures, Dessins, Gravures, Lithographies. Paris, 1885, cat. no. 500, p. 133.

Raymond Escholier Delacroix: Peintre, Graveur, Ecrivain. vol. I, 1926, Also mentioned on p. 67, p. 30, ill.

French Drawings from American Collections Clouet to Matisse. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Dutch, French and English versions of catalogue. Rotterdam, Paris, New York, MMA February 3 - March 15, 1959, cat. no. 113, fig. no. 114, p. 85, ill.

Claus Virch Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. New York, 1962, cat. no. 97, pp. 55-56, ill.

Centenaire d'Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863. Paris, 1963, cat. no. 162, pp. 64-65.

Mémorial de l'exposition Eugène Delacroix organisée au Musée du Louvre a l'occasion du centenaire de la mort de l'artiste. no. 31, Paris, 1963, cat. no. 162, ill.

Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des musées nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 October, 1973-7 January 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 37, fig. no. 18, pp. 38,88.

Maurice Sérullaz Delacroix. Paris, 1981, p. 62, ill.