View of Tangier with Two Seated Arabs Postcard

This is a reproduction of “View of Tangier with Two Seated Arabs” of 1852 by Eugene Delacroix. This landscape with figures comes from the artist’s experiences and sights at the court of Sultan Abd-er-rahmen of Morocco which Delacroix witnessed while on a diplomatic mission for Louis Philippe in 1832. He was fifty-four years old in the year of this creation, twenty years after the mission. He had burst upon the French artistic word two years before at the age of twenty-four with his “Barque of Dante” and became an immediate leader of the new Romantic movement. In contrast to the perfectionist Academics, Delacroix led the Romantics in the use of expressive brushstrokes being inspired by Rubens and Titan. He favored exotic scenes and emphasized color and movement rather than clarity of line. Though hs subjects were full of passion and violence, he depicted them with a great clarifty. This painting is an oil on canvas and measures 18.58 by 22.2 inches. It is in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.