Saada the Wife of Abraham Benchimol and Préciada, One of Their Daughters
Eugène Delacroix
1832

Creator Bio
Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix was a French painter who is considered the leader of the French romantic movement in art. He began his formal training as an artist when he was a teenager. In 1822, he debuted at the Paris Salon, the annual art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he exhibited what is considered his first masterpiece, Dante and Virgil in Hell. He painted many pictures on historical subjects. Later in his career he painted murals for government buildings, including ceiling paintings for the Louvre, the Palais-Bourbon, and the Church of Saint Sulpice
Delacroix’s visit to Tangier and his friendship with the Jews of the city gained him entry to a Jewish wedding that made a deep impression on him; he made a painting of it almost a decade later. A huppah (wedding canopy) represented the home that the newlyweds would build, as did the wedding sofa. The ketubah (marriage contract) emerged as a locus for artistic embellishment all over the Jewish world. Some were written on parchment with exquisite decoration and illustrations that referred to the bride and groom’s families.
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