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Source Description
"Arab Standing in Prayer," shows an aged man on a prayer mat with his eyes uplifted and his hands open in a gesture of intense devotion. The drawing is related to one of Gérôme's most successful compositions, the painting "Prayer on the Rooftops," (Hamburg, Kunsthalle), on which he worked in the early 1860s and which he showed at the Salon of 1865. Gérôme represented a group of men on a rooftop in Cairo at sunset, all facing east in prayer and all at different stages in their worship, with some standing, some seated, and some prostrate against the sky and minarets behind.
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Document identity
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18219
label
Arab Standing in Prayer
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obj
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drawing
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3
Source metadata
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18219
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drawing
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normalized
title
Arab Standing in Prayer
description
"Arab Standing in Prayer," shows an aged man on a prayer mat with his eyes uplifted and his hands open in a gesture of intense devotion. The drawing is related to one of Gérôme's most successful compositions, the painting "Prayer on the Rooftops," (Hamburg, Kunsthalle), on which he worked in the early 1860s and which he showed at the Salon of 1865. Gérôme represented a group of men on a rooftop in Cairo at sunset, all facing east in prayer and all at different stages in their worship, with some standing, some seated, and some prostrate against the sky and minarets behind.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1864, by purchase [from the artist]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1864
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
drawings (visual works)
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3
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3
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
28.9
height
21.1
dimensionsRaw
Page H: 11 3/8 × W: 8 5/16 in. (28.9 × 21.1 cm); H with mat: 19 1/4 × W: 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Inscription] In graphite at center right: à M. Walters/J.L. Gérôme 1864
med
graphite on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper
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4384
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1993
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1
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photo
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no
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3
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photo
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no
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