A peace mission in watercolour
FRANCE: Millon & Associés (17.5/ 13.5% buyer’s premium) June 26 sale included two watercolours taken from an album of drawings by Eugene Delacroix, which the artist presented to Count Charles de Mornay on their return from Morocco in 1832.
De Mornay was sent as a diplomatic envoy to assure the Sultan of Morocco of good neighbourly relatio…