
Muley-Abd-Err-Rahmann, sultan du Maroc sortant de son palais de Mequinez
The Sultan of Morocco is an 1845 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Romantic and Orientalist painter Eugène Delacroix, now in the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse. Its full title is Moulay Abd-Er-Rahman, Sultan of Morocco, leaving his palace of Meknès, surrounded by his guards and his principal officers. It shows Sultan Abd al-Rahman of Morocco departing his palace on horseback, towering above an entourage of his attendants and military officers with the grand gate of Meknes in the background of the composition.
Initially meant to commemorate French ambassador de Mornay in his delegation with the Sultan, The Sultan of Morocco excludes de Mornay and elevates the Sultan as the primary subject. It showcases Delacroix's practice of blending Romanticism and Classicism in some of his paintings of North Africa. Exhibited at the Salon of 1845 and preceded in 1844 by the Franco-Moroccan War, the …
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