Moonlight, Walls of Tangiers by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1913
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
Erisava: How is it this bright when it's supposed to be the middle of the night?
Apparently a wealthy backer had been funding his trips east for years — it started with a magazine job illustrating the Holy Land — and Morocco kept turning up in his paintings long after. They say he did a whole run of these night scenes there.
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The dark shapes at the bottom took me a second — I honestly thought they were shadows.