Delacroix au Maroc

« Saada la femme de Abraham BENCHIMOL et Preciada une de leurs filles ».(1832)
Description
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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Je suis née à Casablanca en 1938 et j’ai encore la nostalgie Je vous envoie la reproduction d’une toile du peintre français
Bien à vous,
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