Record details

• generalData.authorNameInListings

  Marià Fortuny (1838-1874)

• generalData.title

  Condemned to public exhibition and his guardian in a Moroccan street

• generalData.creationDate

  1865 - 1869

• technicalData.measurements

  26,2 x 41,3 cm

• technicalData.description

  Watercolor and pencil
  Inscription: "Visto fare da Fortuny Mariano / Attilio Simonetti / suo allievo"

• technicalData.complementaryDescription

  This luminous and exquisite watercolor is a vibrant testimony to the impressions of the people and streets of Morocco on the retina of Mariano Fortuny during his stay in Morocco in 1860 and 1862, documenting himself to paint episodes of the War of Africa, such as The Battle of Tetouan. During these stays, which are essential to understand Fortuny's work, he was captivated by Moroccan figures and white streets, where the incidence of light and colorism create a daily atmosphere based on observation and the artist's obsession with capturing the most real impressions, always mediated by the powerful light that floods the watercolors of this period.
  
  The use of watercolor, volatile and free-flowing, and the pencil with great looseness, is closely related to another scene of the same type preserved in the Hispanic Society of America. Similarly, in this work, one can appreciate Fortuny's astonishing ability to capture the atmosphere and, above all, the light of the streets of Morocco with a prodigious mastery of technique within an absolutely Orientalist spirit.
  
  It belonged to the collection of the painter Attilio Simonetti, a disciple of Fortuny who witnessed the creation of this watercolor, as evidenced by the inscription probably made by Simonetti. The watercolor may have been painted by Fortuny in Rome in 1869 from his Moroccan memories. At that time, the French artist Henri Regnault was fascinated by the impressions captured in Fortuny's watercolors.