Maurice Romberg De Vaucorbeil - The Riders' Rest

Maurice Romberg de Vaucorbeil (Schaerbeek, 1862 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1943) The Resting Horsemen Watercolor 12.5 x 19 cm (21 x 26 cm with frame) Signed lower right "MR" Very good condition A Belgian artist with strong ties to Morocco, he resided there from 1887, first in Tetouan and then in Meknes. Maurice Romberg then traveled for three years with the archaeologist Guy de la Martinière. He was subsequently the first European to settle and live in Marrakech among the local population, wearing traditional dress. He painted Morocco, its people, and its architecture in a sensitive, artistic, and picturesque style. Discreetly, hidden from view under his burnous, he painted scenes of royal processions, festivals, architecture, and landscapes with great finesse, particularly in his watercolors. He exhibits in Paris, Brussels and London. Our watercolor represents the rest of horsemen, one of those scenes of daily life in Morocco that Maurice Romberg often painted at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.