Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol
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Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol
Eugène Delacroix, 1832“Delacroix produced this sumptuous watercolor on a trip to North Africa in 1832. He accompanied his friend the Count de Mornay on his mission as good-will ambassador to the Sultan of Morocco, Abd-er-Rahman II. Assigned to the delegation as dragoman was the Jewish interpreter Abraham Ben-Chimol (Abraham Benchimol) of Tangiers, who introduced the Frenchmen to his wife and to his daughter, pictured here in her bridal attire. In his “Journal,” Delacroix described in extensive detail a Jewish wedding he attended in Tangiers on February 21, 1832.” The Met
mediumWatercolor over graphite on wove paper
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