Mariano Fortuny y Carbó, Goupil & Cie., and others
Guards of the Casbah at the Gates of Tetuán
c. 1871
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- Artist: Mariano Fortuny y Carbó
- Publisher: Goupil & Cie.
- Printer: Auguste Delâtre
Guards of the Casbah at the Gates of Tetuán
c. 1871
Physical Qualities
Etching and aquatint, Sheet: 265 x 214 mm. (10 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Plate: 220 x 171 mm. (8 11/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Image: 184 x 145 mm. (7 1/4 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.1308
This richly textured etching, with its emphasis on both human
interaction and that between the figures and architecture, is one in
a series depicting Arab guards protecting the entrance to the old city
quarters of Tetuán. In 1871, after successfully exhibiting in Paris, Fortuny traveled to Tangiers and Morocco in the company of the French Orientalist painter Georges
Clairin (1843–1919). While there, he visited the holy city of Fez, and
later made trips to Grenada and Seville to study the vestiges of
Moorish art and architecture in Spain. Influenced by the array of
intense and luminous colors he observed in North Africa, Fortuny
produced numerous watercolors and prints of Moroccan life.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris," December 7, 2005 - May 28, 2005.
Signed: one
Inscribed: RECTO: UR: "N-5"; LL: "Publié par Goupil et Cie"; LWRC: "Garde de la Casbah à Tetuan"; LR: "Imp. Delâtre Paris"
