A Moroccan Amir

Delacroix's gallant captain stands proudly in brilliant sunshine within the walls of the Citadel of Tangier, his martial position further emphasised by the cannon in the background. Portrayed in profile, his hawk-like features and alert, watchful stance are distinctive.

Auguste Delacroix (not to be confused with his more famous namesake) became known for his scenes of everyday rural and coastal life set in and around his native Boulogne. Half-way through his career, in about 1849-50, he visited Morocco, and thereafter oriental subjects were included among the paintings he exhibited at the Salon. This watercolour must have been painted during or shortly after his visit to Tangier.

About the work

Particulars

Neighbors at Victoria and Albert Museum

On the same theme · Forts

Not receiving at present

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

Prière à la Madone

Pêcheurs normands

PAYSANS A LANNEDERN

La femme du matelot

Tanger

Pêcheur de raies et sa famille

Scène de pont animée

Marin-pêcheur boulonnais (titre factice)

Bird of Paradise, 2026

Torsion 2, 2025

Fu, 2025

Bow Before the Curtain Falls, 2024

Summer, 2024

Red Flow, 2024

3D replica of Michelangelo's Prisoner (4117-1854), 2024

Sculpture, ‘Co-Existence – the Man and the Monkey’, 2024

Fort & Harbour Of Aboukir, Ancient Canopus, ca. 1805-ca. 1820

The Bombardment of the Forts of Alexandria, 1882

`Ibreem - The Ancient Castle of Premnis (parva) Nubia. Frontier Cantonment of the Romans "On the Nile", 1855

Port of Yembo, Red Sea, 1829-1834

The walls on Monsoorat (near Tlemcen) from the Mosque, 1870

Tanger, 1850

Ruins near Caesarea, ca. 1860

Yediküle with a Muslim Cemetery, Constantinople, ca. 1800-1820