The Kaïd, A Moroccan Chief is an Orientalist oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, signed and dated by the painter in 1837, and now in the Musée d'Arts de Nantes[1][2] It is also known as Offering Milk,[1] Arab Chief Among His Tribe and The Halt, or The Kaïd Accepting the Shepherds' Hospitality[3]
It was inspired by the artist's stop-off in Ksar el-Kebir on 9 April 1832, during which he witnessed a peaceful greeting by a Moroccan chief.[1] The work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1838[1] and then in Nantes the following year, leading the town's art museum to buy it.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e (in French) Jean-Pierre Digard (ed.), Chevaux et cavaliers arabes dans les arts d'Orient et d'Occident, Éditions Gallimard et Institut du monde arabe, 27 novembre 2002, 304 p. (ISBN 2-07-011743-X), p 262
- ^ (in French) Arlette Sérullaz, Edwart Vignot and Eugène Delacroix, Le bestiaire d'Eugène Delacroix, Citadelles & Mazenod, 2008, 239 p. (ISBN 2850882682 and 9782850882685)
- ^ (in French) Alfred Robaut, Ernest Chesneau and Fernand Calmettes, L'œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix: peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies, Charavay Frères, 1885, 537 pages, page 174
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