View Of Tangier (morocco)

A beautiful watercolor by Edouard Doigneau (1865–1954) depicting a Moroccan man watering his horse at the Siaghine Fountain in the medina of Tangier (Morocco).

Born in Nemours in 1865, Edouard Doigneau entered the École Polytechnique in 1885. In 1900, he decided to become a painter and enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris, where his teachers included Jules Lefebvre (1834–1912) and Tony Robert-Fleury (1837–1911). After becoming a member of the Artistes Français, he participated in numerous exhibitions in Paris. After World War I, during which he was seriously wounded, he resumed his artistic activities and became a tireless traveler. He traveled throughout France (Fontainebleau, Brittany, the Camargue, the banks of the Loire), as well as Spain and North Africa. With a regionalist sensibility, he enjoyed sketching picturesque scenes from Brittany or landscapes of Provence in his sketchbooks. However, his views of Morocco and Algeria also earned him a place among the Orientalists. After a long artistic career, he died in Paris in 1954.