Saint George Slays the Dragon and Rescues the Princess of Beirut

Object Details

Aläqa Yohannes Teklu, 1900 - 1978, born Ethiopia

Description: Tempera on canvas of man wearing a green tunic and orange claok riding a white horse. The horse rears as he stabs a green dragon with a spear. A woman wearing an orange cloak perchs in a tree in the upper proper left corner of the painting. The background is yellow with a green oval behind the horse. Inscriptions along top, by each of the figures.
Provenance: Dr. Marilyn Heldman, late 1960s-early 1970s to 2004; Aläqa Yohannes Teklu, ca. 1965
Exhibition History: "From Monastery to Marketplace," National Museum of Natural History, March-October 2002
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1965

National Museum of African Art

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys7e0e22fff-fbd6-44e7-9b53-5e54d2dc886e