Artist: Eugenio Lucas Y Padilla (Eugenio Lucas Velázquez)
méret: 88 x 62 cm
múzeum: Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga (Málaga, Spain)
Technika: Oil On Canvas
Winding their way along the ledges below craggy rocks, several caravans come together on a large plain before heading for the fleet of sailboats that can be glimpsed in the distance, moored off the coast beneath the reddish sunset. The Arab nature of the clothing of the bustling rows of tiny figures making their way on foot or on horseback is barely recognisable, and the reason for their long journey is also left to the spectator’s imagination – though it is most likely that they are going to load their wares onto merchant ships or set sail for far-off lands.The absolute fascination European Romantic painters felt for the exoticism of the remote and mysterious Arab world – which constituted a uniquely important artistic genre in its own right throughout the century and has been studied with greatly renewed interest in recent years – logically made a special impression on the sensibilities of Spanish painters owing to their geographic and cultural proximity to the Islamic world, particularly Morocco.Like his close friend Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Eugenio Lucas too was unable to resist the beguiling appeal, so close and yet so distant, that the most typical and legendary prints of Arab customs held for the western public and which Lucas’s inexhaustible imagination had no difficulty evoking from the comfort of his studio. For contrary to what his fondness for Moorish themes might suggest, there is no record of his ever travelling to Africa.The works of this Madrid painter often feature Moroccan themes, always executed in a supple, vigorous technique, and include other scenes of caravans approaching a coastal port such as those entitled Costa mora al atardecer (“Moorish Coast at Sunset”) – closely related to the present canvas in the arrangement of the masses of figures and treatment of the sky – and
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