The Sultan of Morocco
![Augustins - Le Sultan du Maroc - Eugène Delacroix.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Augustins_-_Le_Sultan_du_Maroc_-_Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix.jpg/350px-Augustins_-_Le_Sultan_du_Maroc_-_Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix.jpg)
The Sultan of Morocco is an 1845 oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic and Orientalist painter Eugène Delacroix, now in the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse.[1] Its full title is Moulay Abd-Er-Rahman, Sultan of Morocco, leaving his palace of Meknès, surrounded by his guards and his principal officers. It shows the seventh sovereign of the Alaouite dynasty.[2]
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- 1845 paintings
- Collections of the Musée des Augustins
- Paintings by Eugène Delacroix
- History paintings
- Horses in art