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Odalisque in an interior with a parrot
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1803-1860
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Width: 9.8 cm
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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was a leading French Orientalist painter, and one of the first to travel extensively in North Africa and the Middle East. This work, with meticulous attention to detail in the textiles and furnishings, was an imagined scene, likely based on the Arabian Nights’ “Story of the Husband and the Parrot”. The jealous husband buys a magic parrot that reports on his beautiful wife’s infidelity. For readers of the Nights, this image would have evoked lasciviousness, magic and despotism.
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Special Display - French Drawings of the 19th century, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 08/02/2008-12/06/2008
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Inscription: Recto: within drawing, lower left on carpet, black ink, signed by the artist: "Decamps.".
Collector's mark: none.
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