DescriptionDelacroix 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.

Signatures, Inscriptions, and MarkingsSignature: [pen and brown ink, lower left]: Eug Delacroix

ProvenanceComte Charles de Mornay; Albert Hecht (Paris,); Donor: Walter C. Baker, New York (American, 1893 - 1971)

Catalogue RaisonneRobaut 500; MMA 1991.27; Escholier 1927