The Day of the Funeral - Scene from Morocco

In the foreground is the body of the dead man, with a standard in either side of him, lying on a decorated carpet strewn with roses and olive branches.

His head rests on a saddle and his body is wrapped in a white burnous and a pale blue cloak.

On the left, hidden in the shadows, a fourth woman sits, barely visible, near a smoking incense-burner.

[2] The painting was donated by the artist’s widow Catherine-Jeanne Constant in 1905 and is in the collection of the Petit Palais in Paris.

[2] The painting has been shown at a number of exhibitions, including:[1] There is an intaglio print version, also known as La Mort de l’Emir, by fr: Jean Antonin Delzers (1907).