Arab Mourning

Description:

Mariano Fortuny captured the intense grief of an Arab mourning a dead friend in this stark 1866 etching Arabe Veillant le Corps de son Ami.

Fortuny had witnessed Moroccan life at first hand during several visits, the first in 1859, when he accompanied the troops of Spanish General Juan Prim. A nineteenth-century critic praised Fortuny’s scratchy (egratigné) and gritty (grignoté) etching technique as very original and of the greatest interest. Another critic commented on the remarkable effect of color in the print. Even in black and white, Fortuny’s much admired sense of color is evident.

This print is one of twenty-eight Fortuny etchings issued by the Parisian publisher Goupil after the artist’s death in Rome at age thirty-six. Stephen Ferris, a great admirer of Fortuny, owned impressions of many of his prints.

Date Made: 1866

Original Artist: Fortuny y Carbo, MarianoPublisher: Goupil & Cie.Graphic Artist: Delatre

Location: Currently not on view

Place Drawn: Italy: Latian, RomePlace Printed: France: Île-de-France, Paris

Subject: Death

Subject:

See more items in: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts, Ferris Collection, Communications, Art

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: GA.16763Catalog Number: 16763Accession Number: 119780

Object Name: print

Physical Description: paper (overall material)ink (overall material)Measurements: image: 19 cm x 38.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 15 3/16 inplate: 21 cm x 41 cm; 8 1/4 in x 16 1/8 insheet: 28.5 cm x 46.5 cm; 11 1/4 in x 18 5/16 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d9c2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_786735

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