Sur les « fantasias » marocaines d’Eugène Delacroix  by François Pouillon

“…The notebooks that Eugène Delacroix kept during his travels in Morocco in 1832-1833 are an exceptionally detailed source on displays of horsemanship in the Maghrib. …”
Get full text

Orientalism and the British Picture Postcard Industry: Popularizing the Empire in Victorian and Edwardian Homes by Gilles Teulié

“…The Orientalist movement was buttressed by Napoleonic expeditions in Egypt or the travel boom (Eugène Delacroix in Morocco). And yet suffice it to say that only the elite had access to these visual representations, either by becoming owners of paintings or by admiring them in art galleries, the prerogative of the educated and the wealthy. …”
Get full text