Tag: Moroccan Military

01 Work, The Art of War, Eugène Delacroix’s Exercices militaires des marocains/ Moroccan Military Exercises, with footnotes

Dec 15, 2023

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Zaidan Art Blog

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In 1832, Delacroix spent almost six months in North Africa, mainly in Morocco, as well as in Algeria and Andalusia. From this trip during which he accompanied a French diplomatic delegation Delacroix brought back numerous drawings and watercolors from his trip to Morocco which inspired this masterpiece created very shortly after his return. The fantasia…