LE MAROC DE DELACROIX.

Arama, Maurice

Numéro d'objet:	1726
Date:	1987
Genre:	Livre
Lieu:	Paris
Sujet:	Peinture / Sculpture

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Delacroix accompagna en 1832 le conte de Mornay ambassadeur de Louis Philippe auprès du sultan.

ARAMA Maurice (20e s.).
Né à Meknès, installé en France. Artiste-peintre, ancien directeur de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Casablanca et historien de l'art, il a publié plusieurs ouvrages primés dont Delacroix et le Maroc et Itinéraires marocains, regards de peintres.

Historique:

The famous French painter was already obsessed by oriental themes (such as the Massacre of Chios and the Death of Sardanapulus) before his first visit to North Africa in the suite of the official delegation led by Count de Mornay in 1832. He produced dozens of finished canvasses on Moroccan themes (as well as Arab Tax on which he was still working at his death) while the gradual publication of his sketchbooks, notes and letters have only further emphasised his enormous role as the primary visual interpreter of Morocco to the Western World.

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