Sephardic Women of Tangier: A Portrait
Eugène Delacroix
1832
How does the color palette that Delacroix chose for his painting of the Jewish women from Tangier influence the way we see them?
Do you think Algerian Jewish women wore clothes like these on a daily basis in the early 1800s? How might their dress have distinguished them from their Muslim neighbors?
What indicators of economic class and status do you read in this painting?
Creator Bio
Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix was a French painter who is considered the leader of the French romantic movement in art. He began his formal training as an artist when he was a teenager. In 1822, he debuted at the Paris Salon, the annual art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he exhibited what is considered his first masterpiece, Dante and Virgil in Hell. He painted many pictures on historical subjects. Later in his career he painted murals for government buildings, including ceiling paintings for the Louvre, the Palais-Bourbon, and the Church of Saint Sulpice
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