Orientalists
Moroccan light and colour, inspired by nineteenth-century travel painting. Four original artworks. Explore and save these works. Prints are temporarily unavailable while higher-resolution masters are prepared.
About this tradition
Delacroix filled seven notebooks here in 1832 and drew on them for the rest of his life. Gérôme, Dinet, Fromentin and Lewis followed. These are beautiful paintings and they are also somebody's fantasy of a country that was being taken: made by Europeans, for Europeans, about a Morocco arranged for the viewer. We sell work in this manner because the light in it is real and the craft is real. The Morocco in it is not, and we would rather say that on the page than have you find it out later.
