An Arab Sheik . Leon Bonnat
In 1868-69, Bonnat accompanied Jean-Léon Gérôme on a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land. During the trip, he made a number of sketches, which he used as the basis for paintings after he returned to Paris. Bonnat was an influential teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and included among his pupils Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Thomas Eakins.
circa 1870
oil on canvas
Height: 65 cm (25.6 in). Width: 72.5 cm (28.5 in). ; Framed Height: 94 cm (37 in). Width: 106.7 cm (42 in). Depth: 10.2 cm (4 in).
Walters Art Museum
Accession number 37.173
Place of creation Paris, France (?)
Object history
Mary J. Morgan [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
Mrs. Mary J. Morgan Collection Sale, New York, March 3-8, 1886, no. 152
1886: purchased by William T. Walters, Baltimore
[Lucas's letter to Walters dated 12/12/84 claims purchase date was 1885]
1894: inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting 1800-1880. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester; Neuberger Museum, Purchase. 1982. Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland. 1997-1998.
Credit line Acquired by William T. Walters, 1886
Inscriptions [Signature] At lower left: Ln Bonnat; [Number] On old labels removed from the stretcher when canvas was relined in 1963: 17.679, 13.366
