Detail View: The AMICA Library: Le songe de Cosrou
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1991.173
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Lecomte du Nouy, Jean
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1842 - 1923
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Jean Lecomte du Nouy
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Title:
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Cosrou's Dream
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Title Type:
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Primary
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Title:
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Le songe de Cosrou
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Title Type:
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Foreign
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1874
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Creation Start Date:
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1874
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Creation End Date:
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1874
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Materials and Techniques:
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oil on wood
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Dimensions:
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Unframed: 39.3cm x 65.4cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1991.173
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Credit Line:
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Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
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Inscriptions:
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signed center left: Lecomte du Nouy/1874
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Rights:
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Context:
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The artist exhibited the painting with a passage from the French philosopher Montesquieu's Persian Letters (1721): "No passion has ever been more alive than that of the eunuch Cosrou for the slave girl Zélide." The painting is a mixture of Arabian fable, European caricature of the Middle East, and topographical observation. The artist visited Egypt several times, and behind the drug-induced vision is an accurate view of Cairo.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1991.173.tif
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