Portrait of a Woman (Aiouch)

Year 1855

Medium Pencil on paper

Dimensions 26.6 x 16.2 cm 10 1⁄2 x 6 1⁄4 in.

Signed and dated Inscribed lower left: "D. hedjas" Inscribed lower right in Arabic: " عيوش Aiouch" Inscribed lower right: "Aiouch / Louxor 1855 / dessin de J.L. Gerome / Aimé Morot"

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Provenance

Possibly Aimé Morot (1850-1913).

Literature

This work was engraved under the name <em>Tête de negresse de Hedjar</em>: see M. Ackerman, <em>Vie et oeuvre de Jean-Léon Gérôme, Catalog Raisonné</em>, Courbevoie 2000, p. 379, under number 2.

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