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Alexandre Bida

The Woman in the “Song of Songs”, c. 1886

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Medium

black chalk with white heightening on blue wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.2 x 17.7 cm (9 1/2 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.41

Artists / Makers

Alexandre Bida (artist) French, 1823 - 1895

Image Use

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Inscription

By artist, lower center in black chalk: B (underlined); by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 11

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1985; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

2013: Orientalism: A Selection of Prints and Drawings. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 (no cat.).

Bibliography

2012: Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 174 (as "An Arab Leaning on a Rail")(color).

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