Delacroix 2018

7. Military Chief ben Abou in a Morrocan Interior Le Caïd ben Abou chef militaire dans un Intérieur d’une maison marocaine

1832 Watercolor on paper 5 3 ⁄ 8 x 8 1 ⁄ 8

inches (13.9 x 20.7 cm.)

Signed lower left

PROVENANCE Gift of the artist to the Count Charles de Mornay in 1832; His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 29, 1877, lot 18; Purchased by M. De Bourdesoulle for 660 FF; Collection Count and Countess de Mailly.

LITERATURE Robaut, no. 509; J. Guiffrey, Le voyage de Delacroix au Maroc , Paris, 1909, no. 18, p. 194; Arama 1987, p. 217, no. 15. EXHIBITIONS Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, Delacroix en Maroc , September 27, 1994–January 1995, no. 56 illustrated.

LOAN PRIVATE COLLECTION