Standing Bedouin Figure with Knife Drawn

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object Details

Artist
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Figure study of an individual outfitted in Bedouin clothing. The figure stands around loosely-rendered rock formations as he holds his dagger aloft and glares out of frame to the left. Although wearing the flowing headdress and draped clothing of the Bedouin people, this individual is actually Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone, Church's neighbor who he dressed up to serve as a model.
Credit Line
Gift of Louis P. Church
1869-1870
Accession Number
1917-4-752-a
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
figures
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Oil paint and graphite on brown wove paper
Dimensions
35.4 × 26.6 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
made in
Hudson, New York, USA
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Record ID
chndm_1917-4-752-a
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq448497466-a2fb-43d6-bd69-28cc0869d221
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