Figure in a Doorway
Eugène Delacroix French
Not on view
As part of a government mission to Morocco, Delacroix gained entry to places typically inaccessible to Europeans. The buildings in this drawing may represent part of the royal palace complex at Meknès, which the French delegation visited following their audience with Sultan Abd er-Rahman (r. 1822–59). The pinkish-red terracotta color surrounding the window here appears frequently among his visual souvenirs of architecture, decoration, and dress in Morocco and Andalusia.
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