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Study of Camels
1848
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This sheet by an unknown artist was probably created during travels throughout North Africa, possibly Algeria. The country was captured by France in 1830 and annexed as part of its territories in 1848, the year this sheet was made. Numerous artists found inspiration in the culture, recording it for a French audience to whom it was unfamiliar.
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- Title: Study of Camels
- Date Created: 1848
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 28 x 23.4 cm (11 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: Jan Milner, New York, NY, Muriel Butkin, Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.248
- Medium: graphite with blue, red and yellow colored pencil and scraping on wove paper
- Inscriptions: inscribed at right center, below composition: Constantinople 11 octobre (?) 1848, inscribed on verso at upper right, in pencil: [illeg] Blum / 500
- Fun Fact: This sheet is an early example featuring colored pencils, used primarily for office and clerical work at the time and less often by artists.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2019.248
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