VIRTUAL TANGIER: Visions of the City
c. 1871-1913 SOUVENIRS
After Delacroix, Tangier became an obligatory stop for artists seeking to experience the colors and light he spoke of  for themselves - with varying results..
1. c. 1872: Louis Comfort Tiffany   "Snake Charmer at Tangier, Africa"
 
2.  1880: John Singer Sargent "Smoke of Ambergris, Tangier"   3.  1897:  John Ferguson
"A Bazaar in Tangier" 
Henry James wrote "I know not who this stately Mohammedan may be, nor in what mysterious domestic or religious rite she may be engaged; but in her plastered arcade... she is beautiful and memorable. "  It bears mention that ambergris was considered an aphrodisiac -- and no  proper Muslim woman would have lifted her veil to a European. 
 
3. c. 1912-13: F.W. Morrice 
"At Tangier"		  4. c.1871: Auguste Renoir
"An Arab House in Tangier"
5. c. 1912-13: F.W. Morrice 
"Fruit Market, Tangier"		 6.. c. 1912: F.W. Morrice
"Outside of Tangier"
Sources: 1.   Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent
                      Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, MA

                2.  Louis Comfort Tiffany at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
                     The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

                3.  F.W. Morrice Web Page
                     Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (981.10)

                4.  Egypt State Information Service
                     The Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt

           5., 6.  Tangier en Peinture, par Oussama Zekri
                     Musée des Beaux-arts, Ottawa, Canada
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