The Old Clothes Dealer, Cairo, 1879

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 23.81 × 16.51 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
plate: 27.78 × 22.86 cm (10 15/16 × 9 in.)

sheet: 38.58 × 26.99 cm (15 3/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. S.R. Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts)

Accession Number

2015.19.2449

Artists / Makers

Stephen James Ferris (artist) American, 1835 - 1915

Jean-Léon Gérôme (artist after) French, 1824 - 1904

American Art Review (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: S J Ferris aquaforti 1879; lower right in plate: J.L Gérôme Pinxt.; lower center support in graphite by unknown hand: "The Old Clothes Dealer, Cairo." / by Gérôme / Etched by S.J. Ferris. 1879.

Provenance

Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1881; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Koehler, Sylvester Rosa

Bibliography

1880: Koehler, S.R., ed. The American Art Review 1, no. 7 (May 1880): p. 296.