An Elderly Jew and a Muslim Tartar in the Crimea, 1837

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 23.5 x 33 cm (9 1/4 x 13 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2003.81.1

Artists / Makers

Auguste Raffet (artist) French, 1804 - 1860

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black chalk: Juif Karaïme / Bakschigarai. 19 Août; lower right in black chalk: tatare mahométan arrivant de la Mecque--20 Août; upper right in brown ink: 85

Provenance

Prince Demidoff (Lugt 2127). (Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

2012: Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 11.

Bibliography

1976: Paul Prouté S.A. Dessins / Estampes. Paris, 2003: no. 28.