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Aïscha Bent Tchelabia

Maker


1820-1889 (Life dates)

Title

Aïscha Bent Tchelabia

Date of Production

1875

Medium

etching

Dimensions

Height: 260 mm
Width: 190 mm

Accession Number

G.2022.XX.1

Mode of Acquisition

Donato Esposito, gift

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Related Works

A Woman Wearing Moroccan Costume (formerly 'A North African Jewess')

Label Text

Edmond Hédouin (1820-1889) trained as both a painter and a printmaker at the École des Beaux-arts but, although he exhibited paintings steadily over the course of his career, he remains best known as an etcher, making both original and reproductive prints. In 1847 he travelled to Algeria with fellow artist Adolphe Leleux; this trip was the inspiration for the present print, a portrait of a young woman he met on the trip depicted in traditional dress. Although the etching was published much later, by Alfred Cadart in 1875, its relationship to the 1847 trip is made clear by Hédouin’s inscription.

Aischa Bent Tchelabia relates to a drawing by Hédouin in The Courtauld’s collection, A Woman wearing Moroccan costume (D.1978.PG.419). Originally thought to be by Delacroix, this etching confirms Hédouin’s authorship of that drawing.

Provenance

Christian Collin (b. 1963), Paris from whom Donato Esposito purchased 25 August 2022

Literature

Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800, 1958, vol. 10
p. 170, no 50; L'Eau-Forte en 1875 (Paris: Cadart, 1875), plate 21 (second state of two).
p. 170, no. 50; L'Eau-Forte en 1875 (Paris: Cadart, 1875), plate 21 (second state of two).

Inscriptions

Recto: upper left, within plate, printed: AÏSCHA / BENT / TCHELABIA; lower right, within plate, printed, signed: Edm Héd / Constantine 47.

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