Femmes d'Alger (Women of Algiers)
Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798 - 1863
1833
Pen lithograph in brown ink on wove paper
Image: 6 1/4 × 8 11/16 in. (15.9 × 22 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 11/16 in. (18.2 × 27.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.964.61
Printer
Imprimerie Bertauts, Paris
Publisher
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on stone, lower left: Eug. Delacroix; lettered, lower center margin: Femmes d'Alger.; lettered, lower left: Gazette des Beaux-Arts.; lettered, lower right: Imp. Bertauts Paris
Course History
GERM 10, Germany and the East, Yuliya Komska, Winter 2013
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
GOVT 86.43/MES 12.14, Intellectual History of Racism, Michelle Clarke and Jonathan Smolin, Spring 2022
Provenance
Dr. David James, Miami, Florida; sold to present collection, 1964.
Catalogue Raisonne
Moreau (1873): 52; Delteil: 97; Robaut: 479; Adhémar, IFF (1953): 72
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