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Moors on Horseback by Mariano Fortuny Marsal

Moors on Horseback

Mariano Fortuny Marsal · 1838

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Artist
Mariano Fortuny Marsal
Date
1838
Medium
Brush and watercolor on off-white paper
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
2 x 6 in. (5.1 x 15.2 cm)
Collection
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Bequest of Martha T. Fiske Collord, in memory of her first husband, Josiah M. Fiske, 1908
ART MOVEMENTS
Romanticism
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Mariano Fortuny Marsal

1838–1874 · Spain

Spanish painter who died at 36 from malaria caught while painting outdoors, leaving behind shimmering Orientalist scenes.

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Beyond Marsal and Romanticism: works from the same years.

The Estuary Farm Same era · 1820s–1850s The Estuary Farm Léon-Victor Dupré · 1831 · Art Institute of Chicago Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard Same era · 1820s–1850s Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard Eugène Delacroix · 1839 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore Same era · 1820s–1850s Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore J. M. W. Turner · 1840 · Yale Center for British Art The Virgin Adoring the Host Same era · 1820s–1850s The Virgin Adoring the Host Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1841 · Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Young Woman Same era · 1820s–1850s Young Woman Jean-François Millet · 1844 · Art Institute of Chicago Wooded Landscape Same era · 1820s–1850s Wooded Landscape Gustave Courbet · 1848 · Art Institute of Chicago Mount Chocorua and Moat Mountain from North Conway Same era · 1820s–1850s Mount Chocorua and Moat Mountain from North Conway William Hart · 1850 The Fortune Teller (La Bonne Aventure) Same era · 1820s–1850s The Fortune Teller (La Bonne Aventure) Jacques-Louis David · 1824 · Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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