DrawingsFrench19th century

On the Banks of the Nile

1846

Artists

François-Edouard BertinArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk heightened with white chalk and white gouache on blue wove paper

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

irregular: 30.1 x 48 cm (11 7/8 x 18 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Estate of the Artist; Bertin Family, Paris, by descent; Galerie Jacques Fischer, Paris; purchase, Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (2000); Harvard Art Museum/ Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 2006.316

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