Figure in a Doorway 1832 Eugène Delacroix French As part of a government mission to Morocco, Delacroix gained entry to places typically inaccessible to Europeans. The buildings in this drawing may represent part of the royal palace complex at Meknès, which the French delegation visited following their audience with Sultan Abd er-Rahman (r. 1822–59). The pinkish-red terracotta color surrounding the window here appears frequently among his visual souvenirs of architecture, decoration, and dress in Morocco and Figure in a Doorway 342878

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