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Source Description
In a Turkish guardroom or barracks, two soldiers are seated conversing. One with African features gesticulates while addressing the other who listens impassively, smoking his long pipe. On the ground beside the speaker, are a cloth-wrapped bundle, a couple of melons, and a pipe. Three other soldiers are discernible in the background. Behind the figure smoking is a crumbling masonry wall, a recurrent motif in Decamps' pictures.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
2351
label
The Guardsmen
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
2351
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
The Guardsmen
description
In a Turkish guardroom or barracks, two soldiers are seated conversing. One with African features gesticulates while addressing the other who listens impassively, smoking his long pipe. On the ground beside the speaker, are a cloth-wrapped bundle, a couple of melons, and a pipe. Three other soldiers are discernible in the background. Behind the figure smoking is a crumbling masonry wall, a recurrent motif in Decamps' pictures.
provenance
Ed. L. Jacobson Sale, April 28-29, 1876, no. 22; Charles T. Yerkes Sale, American Art Association, New York, April 5-8, 1910, no. 13; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1841
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
49.5
height
59.8
dimensionsRaw
H: 19 1/2 x W: 23 9/16 in. (49.5 x 59.8 cm); Framed H: 31 x W: 35 1/2 in. (78.74 x 90.17 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] signed lower left: DECAMPS 1841
med
oil on canvas
creator_ids
3835
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2954
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
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