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View of North Africa at Dawn
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Rousseau was born in Cairo in 1875 and trained with Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris. In 1902, the year that he exhibited this painting at the salon of the Société des Artistes Français, he won the second class medal and a scholarship for travel abroad. His works, recording France's colonial territories, are represented in French museums, including the Louvre. In this view of the Atlas Mountains seen at dawn, the artist has admirably captured the appearance of the light hitting the range.
Provenance
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Louis Muller [1844-1933], Sorrento, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Amy Allison Stirling (Mrs. Lloyd Campbell), by inheritance [from her father]; Walters Art Museum, May 1989, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1902 | Exposition de Voyage et des Prix du Salon. |
Measurements
H: 58 1/16 x W: 38 1/4 in. (147.4 x 97.2 cm); Framed H: 49 13/16 × W: 69 5/16 × D: 3 11/16 in. (126.5 × 176 × 9.3 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Amy Allison Stirling, 1989
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.2639