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The image shows a portrait of a person from the waist up. The person is positioned with their body turned slightly to the left, raising their right arm slightly. The facial features are blurred, with the head adorned by a white turban wrapped around darker hair. The person is wearing an elaborate blue garment with red and gold details, including draped fabric and a decorative belt or sash encircling the waist. The background is a soft pastel landscape with patches of blue, pink, and brown, evoking a cloudy sky and a distant horizon.
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The image shows a portrait of a person from the waist up. The person is positioned with their body turned slightly to the left, raising their right arm slightly. The facial features are blurred, with the head adorned by a white turban wrapped around darker hair. The person is wearing an elaborate blue garment with red and gold details, including draped fabric and a decorative belt or sash encircling the waist. The background is a soft pastel landscape with patches of blue, pink, and brown, evoking a cloudy sky and a distant horizon.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Turk

Jules-Robert Auguste

Date
1815/1817
Medium
pastel on wove paper, mounted on board
Dimensions
overall: 22.5 x 14.7 cm (8 7/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1999.111.1
Credit line
Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • garment
  • travel
  • genre
  • Orientalism
  • Costume study
  • Turkish
Provenance

Eugène Delacroix, Paris (1798 - 1863); Paul Huet, Paris (1804 - 1869); by descent to Maurice Perret-Carnot, Neuilly-sur-Seine; (Pierre Miquel, Paris, 1966); Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Amherst, MA, 1966; gift to NGA, 1999.

Inscription

by later hand, upper right verso in blue ink: -191-; by later hand, across lower center verso: Mr. Auguste / Provient de la succession Delacroix / et du leg. Paul Huet / offert à Mr. Miguel par M / Perrel - Carnot

NGA object ID 111160. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.