Arabe veillant le corps de son ami (Arab Watching over the Body of His Friend)

1866

Mariano Fortuny Marsal

Artist, Spanish, 1838 - 1874

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on buff laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Jimmy and Jessica Younger, Houston

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.5 × 41.2 cm (8 7/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 37.1 × 54.8 cm (14 5/8 × 21 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.116.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Vives i Piqué 1994, no. 1, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

  • Vives, Rosa, and M. Luisa Cuenca. Mariano Fortuny Marsal; Mariano Fortuny Madrazo: Grabados y dibujos. Exh. cat., Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid: 1994: no. 1, iii/iii

Inscriptions

across lower edge of plate: ARABE VEILLANT LE CORP DE SON AMI; lower right: Fortuny; upper right in image: M Fortuny / roma 1866

Wikidata ID

Q77005734

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