Léon Bonnat - An Arab Sheik - Walters 37173 Paul Delaroche
Summary
In 1868-69, Bonnat accompanied Jean-Léon Gérôme on a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land. During the trip, he made a number of sketches, which he used as the basis for paintings after he returned to Paris. Bonnat was an influential teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and included among his pupils Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Thomas Eakins.
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Date
1870
Source
Walters Art Museum
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