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Maker(s):Bracquemond, Félix
Culture:French (1833 - 1914)
Title:Un Duo, d’après Gérôme
Date Made:1883
Type:Print
Materials:Etching printed in black on medium thick, moderately textured, beige paper
Place Made:France
Measurements:Sheet: 17 1/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 43.8 cm x 31.1 cm; Image: 8 1/2 in x 6 5/8 in; 21.6 cm x 16.8 cm
Accession Number:  SC 2014.24.9
Credit Line:Gift of Caroline F. Brady, class of 1958
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Etching of "Albanian" man [Beraldi, no. 343] dressed in exotic costume, head covered with headscarf. Man is perched upon a long sofa, playing a stringed instrument and singing. A bird, on the lower righthand side of the composition, looks up at the man with an open beak. A long scythe hangs from a string pinned to the wall behind the man. Singing, music, instruments, lute, Orientalism, couch, divan, exoticism, weapons, animals, birds, warblers, interior scenes. Signed "L. Gerome" in plate, undated.

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