Eugène Delacroix

The travel of Eugène Delacroix to Morocco appears as one of the major event in the life of the great painter. One great trip to the existence of a painter homebody, preferring dizziness of imagination to the exhilaration of discovery, Delacroix Moroccan journey continues to fascinate. The exhibition at the Musée Delacroix is based on a part, often unknown of the museum collection, consisting of the small Moroccan hundred objects - fabrics, pottery , weapons , leather, clothing, musical instruments, boxes - reported by Delacroix his trip. These objects acquired in Morocco accompanied the painter in his workshops, over the next thirty years, from 1832 to 1863. They were well in the workshop and the apartment in the Fürstenberg street, at painter's end.