Kammala wannan jumla: Lokacin da Count de Mornay ya tafi Morocco a 1832 don kafa yarjejeniya mai goyan bayan kwanan nan
A lokacin da Faransa ta mamaye Aljeriya, ya ɗauki mai zane-zane mai suna Eugène Delacroix. Delacroix ba wai kawai ya ji daɗin gabas ta wurin ba; ya kuma dauke shi a matsayin sabon tsari da rayuwa don ayyukansa game da tsohuwar tsohuwar: "Helenawa da Romawa suna nan a ƙofata, a cikin Larabawa waɗanda suka lulluɓe kansu da farin bargo kuma suna kama da Cato ko Brutus... " Ya zana kuma ya zana zane-zane a hankali, ya rubuta a lokacin "Ina kama da mutum a cikin mafarki, ganin abubuwan da yake jin tsoro zai ɓace daga gare shi". Ya koma ga zane-zanen sa da kuma tunaninsa na Arewacin Afirka har zuwa karshen aikinsa, tare da zane-zanen mai 80 kamar "The Fanatics of Tangier" da "Women of Algiers" sun zama almara da tasiri a kan masu fasaha kamar Van Gogh, Gauguin, da Picasso. Musamman ingancin hasken ya burge su: ga Cézanne, "Duk wannan launi mai haske... kamar... yana shiga ido kamar gilashin giya yana gudana a cikin makogwaro kuma yana sa ku bugu nan da nan". Daga baya Tangier ya zama tilas ne ga masu zane-zane da ke neman fuskantar launuka da haske da ya yi magana a kansu - tare da sakamako daban-daban. Matisse ya yi balaguro da yawa a Tangier, koyaushe yana zama a Grand Hotel Villa de France. Ya ce: "Na sami wurare a Maroko, daidai yadda aka kwatanta su a zanen Delacroix". Almajiransa kuma suna da nasu; Mai zane-zane na California Richard Diebenkorn ya kasance kai tsaye ta hanyar launuka masu ban sha'awa da kuma zane-zane na zane-zanen Maroko na Matisse.