拍品專文
Dehodencq discovered Morocco in 1853 and returned every year over the next decade making endless dynamic sketches which captured the movement of teeming street life. Largely dependant on the Jewish population for his models, he painted Sephardi concerts, weddings and festivities, but also violent, shocking scenes of the arrest and the punishment of the Jews, set in Morocco or in old Moorish Spain (R. Benjamin, Orientalism, Delacroix to Klee, p. 239). Les prisonniers Marocains is a great example of the artist's ability to convey movement and emotion through one of these themes.