1st part: In February 1864, everyone who was anyone in Paris crowded the Drouot auction house for the sale of the contents of Eugène Delacroix's studio. Amongst the works sold were the seven sketch bookings that illustrated the artist's journey to Morocco in 1832 as part of a French diplomatic mission - 2nd part: Eugène Delacroix returned from his travels in Morocco with over 1,000 drawings that later inspired some of his most emblematic paintings. He continued to paint the Orient until the end of his life, until that very last canvas "Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains" completed a few days before his death.