The Duc d'Aumale’s Orientalist Drawings at Chantilly

Published on 20 April 2022, by Christophe Averty

Nearly 40 drawings on exhibit at the Graphic Arts Cabinet of the Condé Museum in Chantilly illustrate the orientalism of Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Horace Vernet and Eugène Delacroix.

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Album du voyage au Maroc : Intérieur d’une maison juive... The Duc d'Aumale’s Orientalist Drawings at Chantilly

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Album du voyage au Maroc : Intérieur d’une maison juive à Tanger (Morocco Travel Album: Interior of a Jewish Home in Tangier), 1832, lead pencil and watercolor, 19.5 x 12.5 cm/ 7.68 x 4.92 in.
© RMN-Grand Palais Domaine de Chantilly, Michel Urtado

The 39 drawings, pastels and watercolors from the duc d’Aumale’s o rientalist collection and Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux’s album exhibited in five rooms of the Château de Chantilly’s graphic arts cabinet have two things in common. They reflect the painters’ fascination with North Africa and the Near East since…

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