Head of a Woman wearing a Red Turban
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"Delacroix seized the Romantic palette, overloaded with colours, some brilliant, others too numerous, earthy and dark, everything it could give him" - Paul Signac Delacroix’s close friend Frédéric Villot claimed this dramatically lit study was made by candlelight.
Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt prompted a huge interest in the Middle East and Orientalist representations in art, especially Romanticism. Delacroix visited Algeria, Morocco and southern Spain in 1832.
The woman’s red turban suggests this could be a sketch made during the tour, perhaps for one of Delacroix’s Middle Eastern scenes from myth or legend. It has also been suggested that the study was modelled on Pauline, Villot's wife.