Delacroix's Moroccans

DELACROIX’S MOROCCANS by Jennifer Olmsted ’93 examines French artist Eugène Delacroix’s many paintings and drawings of the men he encountered on his 1832 trip to Morocco. Olmsted shows how Delacroix defied prevailing French attitudes toward North Africans to represent Moroccan men as models of heroic masculinity and political sovereignty. (2025, Pennsylvania State University Press)