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Eugène Delacroix / Jewish Wedding in Morocco

Jewish Wedding in Morocco

1839 · Oil on canvas

MuseumLLouvre
MovementRRomanticism
LocationParis, France
Genregenre art
Dimensions105 × 140.5 cm

Why it matters

A Jewish wedding in Morocco, based on a ceremony Delacroix witnessed and sketched in Tangier in 1832. Renoir later made a copy of it.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1839.
  • It was shown at the Salon of 1841.
  • The Duke of Orléans acquired it the same year.

Based on the Wikipedia article Jewish Wedding in Morocco (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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