Sujet

Arab Mendicant in Meditation, c1860. Creator: Charles Camino.

Légende

Arab Mendicant in Meditation, c1860. In this work, the artist depicts the figure in such a way that most of his face is obscured, creating a sense of mystery. Everything we know about the character of this man is expressed though his posture, clothes, and objects, like his bowl containing a few coins. Very little is known about Camino’s training; he visited Algeria in the early 1850s, which inspired the art he made in the decades that followed.

Date

1860

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B16_436

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,4Mo (1,9Mo) / 27,7cm x 42,0cm / 3271 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors Europe portrait people man man men religious sitting arts country French France religion art guy continent clothes museum European color dress poor poverty location century clothing charity concept seated APPAREL beggar beggars LEGS CROSSED posture cross-legged alms cloak Colour ascetic 19th century nineteenth century mendicant religious practices outside head bowed Walters Art Museum hands in lap Heritage Art 19th-century alms dish alms plate clothing & dress fashion & clothing Charles Camino Camino Charles watercolor over traces of graphite on cream moderately thick slightly textured wove paper