Africans dancing in the street

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1832

Height:

23.7 cm  (9 5/16 in.)

Width:

18.5 cm  (7 5/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

Description

Three men dance in a street outside stuccoed Moraccan-style buildings, in white costumes and with musical instruments (hand-held clappers (probably qarqaba or shkashek) and a cylindrical drum (probably tbel or ganga)); a child and two men watch from the background.

Iconclass

43C9421
group of men dancing (folk dancing)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tbel [2764] (or ganga, played with a curved stick)
Clappers [2426] (probably qarqaba (karkaba) or shkashek)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

5669