Alfred Dehodencq sketching horse and rider from Europe and North Africa, Gypsy, donkey & dogs

 Salvete Omnes,

today a long title to my post but a short gallop across some of the artwork by a French XIX century master Alfred Dehodencq -  wiki. 

Sketches and watercolor studies -  more on wiki commons .. 

and  paintings of les Bohemiens (the Gypsy Roma on their wandering ) - Spanish most likely, as he had gone to Spain after 1848 AD or so.   

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Morisco Bits North Africa - MET

Salvete Omnes,
North African morisco bits from the MET:
Tuareg

 Maghreban

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Edwin Lord Weeks - North Africa

Salve,
 I would like to add some more images by maestro Weeks
this time from North Africa and Western Asia - Persia- I used to like those old Hollywood movies about the tales of the Arabian[Persian and /or Indian] Nights and even the ones about the French Foreign Legion.
back to the subject -  in the US there are many, many Orientalist paintings within the vast warehouses of many a museum. But we do not cherish them too much nowadays ..
So let us explore some more  the Bostonian's brush work - in addition, you can even read about this travels an adventures in a book he wrote and illustrated himself.
Persia

North Africa

finally the master in his studio

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Inspiration from Delacroix

Salvete omnes,
 just an inspiration for today -

two XIX century painting by Eugene Delacroix .
Both show the North African Moors saddling their spirited Barb (?) horses.
So I am and looking at some of his equine paintings and  I wonder about his Moorish horsemen and their tack.
Nota bene a beautiful Moorish saddle from Ottoman Turkey at the Livrustkammaren. An example of XIX century saddle. Modern but traditional saddles from Maghreb.

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Mariano Fortuny - Orientalism

Salve,
I have always liked drawings and etchings by Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal, but now we can  admire some of his paintings via Wikimedia Commons, eg paintings.
I prefer the works connected to the Orientalism genre so potent in the European art during the XIX century, and so they are attached below.
The battle of Tetuan is his most monumental work

another being the battle of Wad-Rass

however, I also like these other works done later, after don Mariano's voyage to Morocco during the Spanish-Moroccan war 1859-60, and just great.

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ps
I've started watching Major Dundee, looking mostly at the camera work and photography