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 It is also known as Offering Milk, Arab Chief Among His Tribe and The Halt, or The Kaïd Accepting the Shepherds' Hospitality
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. The work was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1838 and then in Nantes the following year, leading the town's art museum to buy it.
References
- ^ (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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