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| Keywords: Jean-Léon Gérôme - Arab Standing in Prayer - Walters 371305.jpg Arab Standing in Prayer shows an aged man on a prayer mat with his eyes uplifted and his hands open in a gesture of intense devotion The drawing is related to one of Gérôme's most successful compositions the painting Prayer on the Rooftops Hamburg Kunsthalle on which he worked in the early 1860s and which he showed at the Salon of 1865 Gérôme represented a group of men on a rooftop in Cairo at sunset all facing east in prayer and all at different stages in their worship with some standing some seated and some prostrate against the sky and minarets behind 1864 graphite on cream moderately thick slightly textured wove paper cm 28 9 22 3 accession number 37 1305 18219 William T Walters city Baltimore from the artist Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1864 à M Walters/J L Gérôme 1864 in graphite center right The Essence of Line A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Orientalists The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987-1988 Botanical Delights Floral Motifs in 19th-Century Art Strathmore Hall Art Center North Bethesda; Academy of the Arts Easton Easton; Government House Annapolis 1998-1999 A Discerning Eye Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors Academy of the Arts Easton Easton 1998-1999 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line Drawings by Jean-Léon Gérôme Drawings in the Walters Art Museum Islamic prayers in art | ||||
