On the Banks of the Nile
1846
Artists
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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