Painting by john lavery, oil on canvas entitled "a moorish dance", 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, like here, where he illustrates through his painting a dancer, who seems to be a haratin (sub-saharan slave) judging by the dark color chosen to paint her, dancing a moorish dance. The woman is dressed in a traditional green moroccan caftan embroidered with gold thread and seems to be wearing several caftans on her, another red one that can be seen. It was customary in morocco to wear several caftans one on top of the other, and this set of clothing is called "takchita", just as it was customary for the slaves of rich moroccan merchants to also wear great value caftans. Date: 1892.
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