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The Guardsmen
(18th and 19th Centuries )
In a Turkish guardroom or barracks, two soldiers are seated conversing. One with African features gesticulates while addressing the other who listens impassively, smoking his long pipe. On the ground beside the speaker, are a cloth-wrapped bundle, a couple of melons, and a pipe. Three other soldiers are discernible in the background. Behind the figure smoking is a crumbling masonry wall, a recurrent motif in Decamps' pictures.
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Provenance
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Ed. L. Jacobson Sale, April 28-29, 1876, no. 22; Charles T. Yerkes Sale, American Art Association, New York, April 5-8, 1910, no. 13; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1984 | Alexandre Gabriel Decamps. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 10/1/1957 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 11/14/1957 | Treatment | cleaned; coated; loss compensation |
| 9/13/1983 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 2/24/1984 | Treatment | cleaned; coated |
| 6/10/2009 | Treatment | loss compensation; other |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 19 1/2 x W: 23 9/16 in. (49.5 x 59.8 cm); Framed H: 31 x W: 35 1/2 in. (78.74 x 90.17 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1910
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.849