Delacroix in Morocco and the inversion of the Exotic.

Abstract

In 1832, the French painter Eugene Delacroix integrated a diplomatic mission to Morocco. In this article, we will analyze the records that the painter made in their travel diaries and letters written in the same period. The aim is to observe how the travel experience has transformed the look of the painter, initially formatted by the French orientalist ideology of the nineteenth century, which considered everything that was not European as “exotic”.