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This painting shows a person standing in profile, facing the left. They have long, dark hair that almost entirely obscures their face. They have pale skin and they are wearing an ornate, colorful garment in shades of orange, red, cream, and gray, which has a long skirt that trails behind them. They also have a decorative headpiece on their head, similar to a small cream-colored bonnet. The person holds a round mirror or fan in their left hand and stands next to a wooden couch with a patterned back in shades of yellow, red, blue, and gray, with red cushions. The background is a textured blue-gray wall.
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This painting shows a person standing in profile, facing the left. They have long, dark hair that almost entirely obscures their face. They have pale skin and they are wearing an ornate, colorful garment in shades of orange, red, cream, and gray, which has a long skirt that trails behind them. They also have a decorative headpiece on their head, similar to a small cream-colored bonnet. The person holds a round mirror or fan in their left hand and stands next to a wooden couch with a patterned back in shades of yellow, red, blue, and gray, with red cushions. The background is a textured blue-gray wall.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Moroccan Woman in Traditional Dress

Mariano Fortuny Marsal

Date
1866
Medium
watercolor with touches of gum arabic, heightened with white gouache on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 35.9 × 26 cm (14 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2013.176.1
Credit line
Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Woman
  • Dress
  • Orientalist
  • furniture
Provenance

Fortuny Family, Venice; (Hill-Stone, Inc., New York); NGA purchase in 2013.

Inscription

lower left in brown ink: M Fortuny 1866

NGA object ID 163352. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.