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147431
label
Two Arabs, for "The Revolt of Cairo"
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
147431
contentType
drawing
title
Two Arabs, for "The Revolt of Cairo"
date
c. 1810
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79926504
creators
1697
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 45.4 x 41.2 cm (17 7/8 x 16 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 50.4 x 45.2 cm (19 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.); Tertiary Support: 50.4 x 45.2 cm (19 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1973.172
Source extras
tec
black chalk heightened with white chalk, with traces of blue chalk
tombstone
Two Arabs, for "The Revolt of Cairo", c. 1810. Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French, 1767–1824). Black chalk heightened with white chalk, with traces of blue chalk; sheet: 45.4 x 41.2 cm (17 7/8 x 16 1/4 in.); secondary support: 50.4 x 45.2 cm (19 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.); tertiary support: 50.4 x 45.2 cm (19 13/16 x 17 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1973.172
supportMaterials
description
beige? wove paper, discolored to brown, perimeter mounted to a false margin of blue wove paper, laid down on a teriary support of beige(1) wove paper
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in black ink: Etude pour "la bataille du Caire" ; lower center, in black ink: Gitodet ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: Girodet [underlined] ; upper cener, in graphite: Etude pour la bataille du Caire (Musée de Versailles) ; ON A SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER, verso, center, printed in black ink: Quai Malaquais Nº 19, / MALARD / Sussefseur de M. Gerset, / Fait l'Encadermentet le Collage des Dessins, / Gravures, Passe-Partouts, &c, &c. / A PARIS ; ON A FRAME BACKING (now removed, fragment in departmental file), in black ink: Girodet de Roucy Trioson / Etude pour la "bataille du Caire" (musée de Versailles) [parentheses part of inscription] / - anc. coll de musigny ; ON A SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER (on an old backing, on removed and in departmental file), printed in black ink: GIRODET / 108. --- Combat entre un Français et un Arabe / Pierre noire, rehaussée / Vente [illegible] 6 Déc. 1903 [the last line inscribed in black ink]
citations
citation
"The Year in Review for 1973." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78.
page_number
p. 75 no. 77, illus. p. 47.
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25152513
citation
Johnson, Mark M. I<em>dea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
page_number
pp. 72-3, illus.
citation
Cable, Patrick Shaw. “From North Africa to the Black Sea: Nineteenth-Century French Orientalist Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 7 (2002): 104–125.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 104-105, fig. 1
citation
Bellenger, Sylvain, ed.<em> Girodet, 1767-1824</em>. [Paris, France]: Gallimard, 2006.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 315, cat. 63
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
updatedAt
2026-06-18 11:45:47.711000
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147431
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Drawings
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DR - French
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black chalk heightened with white chalk, with traces of blue chalk
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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