Watercolor entitled "a moorish dancer", signed j. Lavery, stamped "morocco" and dated 1892. This painting was painted during the painter's tangier period. Indeed, in 1891, the painter left for morocco with a first stopover in tangier[2], the opportunity for him to captivate the moorish essence of morocco through several paintings of anthropological value, as here, where the mansouria (moroccan women's clothing) is painted. The mansouria is characterized by the wearing of a moroccan caftan (red in the drawing), worn underneath a dfina, which is a transparent open dress. Date: 1892.
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