Indoor setting with Moors
Ca. 1870. Oil on panel.Not on display
A typical scene: the artist depicts several Moors wearing modest clothes. Some of them are playing the music that emerges from inside a rustic room, while the others are listening to it. Other figures are blurred against a background that opens out into a very ill-defined space. The controlled treatment of colour suggests a pleasant evening [...]. It seems that, in a fleeting instant, the spectator has witnessed the ‘quiet history’ of people who are far from any other concerns [...]
Dizy Caso, Eduardo, Los orientalistas de la escuela española, Paris, ACR Éditions, 1997, p.140-143
