Moorish Fantasies

Delacroix, Fantasia Arabe, Staedel Museum, Frankfurt

The journey to Morocco facilitated both renewal and greater emancipation from the standards still prevalent in the studios and in the Salon [...] The brilliant sunlight of the landscape [...] the outdoor scenes have a silvery-yellow, almost Veronese light...

 'Delacroix: Romantic Classicist', Romanticism and Its Discontents

Later in the same essay, written before The Next Big Thing, Brookner considers Jacob and the Angel:

That other detail, of the caravan of animals and servants being sent off to Esau, represents Delacroix's last Moorish fantasy.

See also the following earlier posts: Julius and the Angel and A Private View.