Seven men sit or stand in a town street in front of a bone-brown stucco building in this horizontal watercolor painting. Light pours across the road from the right, making the surface glow parchment white. The building is close to us and takes up the left two-thirds of the composition. Its face is flat except for a wide, deeply shadowed arch, which is about twice the height of the standing person, and a shallowly projecting structure that encases the second story of the corner. This structure is pierced to create intricate tracery and is supported by corbels. Three people sit or recline…
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A Street in Tangiers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal (Spanish, 1838 - 1874)

1860 or 1862

Medium
watercolor on paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 14 7/16 x 19 3/4 in. (36.67 x 50.17 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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