Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume, Morocco, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume, Morocco, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

Eugène Delacroix

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Delacroix was directly involved in promoting and circulating his work in the popular press. In January 1842, he contributed an article to "Le Magasin Pittoresque" on his recollections of a Jewish wedding in Morocco, the subject of a painting he submitted to the Salon in 1841. An editor’s note stated that the magazine had wished to publish a reproduction of that artwork, but Delacroix only provided a drawing of the musician, which he adapted from the painting.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume, Morocco, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume, Morocco, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume, Morocco, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume, Morocco, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume, Morocco, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.