Abstract
The city of Barcelona commissioned the artist Marià Fortuny (1838–74), born in the Catalan town of Reus, to accompany General Juan Prim, the Count of Reus, on the campaign in Morocco, and he returned two years later to compose his masterpiece, the unfinished painting The Battle of Tetuán. The work, almost ten by thirty-two feet, is a panoramic view of an epic struggle between Spanish forces in the center and Moroccan troops in the foreground. Prim leads the charge toward the enemy encampment, and the wounded stagger among the dead. Resting camels look tranquil and a bit out of