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Mariano Fortuny Marsal

Arabe veillant le corps de son ami (Arab Watching over the Body of His Friend), 1866

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Medium

etching and aquatint on buff laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Jimmy and Jessica Younger, Houston

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2013.116.1

Artists / Makers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal (artist) Spanish, 1838 - 1874

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bareggi, Silvana

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

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