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.
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Signature: [pen and brown ink, lower left]: Eug Delacroix
Comte Charles de Mornay; Albert Hecht
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Robaut 500; MMA 1991.27; Escholier 1927
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Dominique de Font-Réaulx Delacroix: La liberté d'être soi. Cohen and Cohen, Paris, 2018, fig. no. 122, pp. 181-182, ill.
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