A Eunuch's Dream
1874
Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ
Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ (French, 1842–1923)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
A Eunuch's Dream, 1874. Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ (French, 1842–1923). Oil on wood; framed: 54 x 74.5 x 5.5 cm (21 1/4 x 29 5/16 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 39.3 x 65.4 cm (15 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1991.173 Much of Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ's artwork was inspired by travelling to Egypt as a young man.
- Maker/Artist
- Lecomte du Nouÿ, Jean
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 54 x 74.5 x 5.5 cm (21 1/4 x 29 5/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 39.3 x 65.4 cm (15 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed center left: Lecomte du Nouÿ / 1874
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1991.173
- Credit Line
- Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
- Exhibitions
- Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary, From Homer to the Harem: The Art of Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, European Orientalists: From Delacroix to Kandinsky, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, N.Y.; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, College at Purchase. Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting 1800-1880 (1982), no. 55, 81 (repr.), 83.<br>Dahesh Museum of Art (6/22/2004 - 9/19/2004): "From Homer to the Harem: The Art of Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ"<br>Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (10/15/2010 - 1/9/2011), Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung [organizer] (1/29/2011 - 5/1/2011), and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille (5/20/2011 - 8/21/2011): "European Orientalists: From Delacroix to Kandinsky", ex. cat. no. 148, p. 181.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 219 19th Century European
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