Two Bedouins
date: label: Date
content: March 1874
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure and landscape sketch showing a view of two Bedouin figures emerging from a dark setting, possibly coming out of a cave entrance. Foremost figure has a long, grey beard and looks to the left as he clutches his long rifle with two hands. Behind him at left, a younger figure, also with a rifle, is faintly visible as he looks toward the viewer. The both wear red headresses and long, striped robes. The dark setting around them is loosely rendered and covers only a portion of the leaf. This sketch served as a study for the two foremost figures in Church's finished work "El Khasné, Petra," which now hangs in Olana. Chuch asked his neighbor, Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone, to don bedouin garments and serve as a model for this sketch and others.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-761
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on thick paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 31.8 × 45.5 cm (12 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)