Cleveland Museum of Art
A Young Black Woman Fetching Water
Eugène Delacroix
- Date
- 1832
- Medium
- Watercolor and graphite, heightened with gouache on paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In 1832, the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix was invited to accompany the Count de Mornay, ambassador to the Sultan of Morocco, on a journey to Spain, Morocco, and Algeria. While there, he created this watercolor depicting a young woman—likely an enslaved African—as she engaged in domestic work. The drawing was one of 18 that Delacroix included in an album given to the count as a souvenir of their travels. Delacroix replicated and slightly changed the image in this watercolor as a wood engraving published in the popular journal L’Illustration in 1844.
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