The image shows a male figure from the waist up seated in a relaxed position. He is leaning slightly back while smoking a long pipe that he holds with both hands, one hand near his face and the other near the bowl of the pipe. The man has distinct facial features including a moustache, and his hair is mostly covered by a wrapped turban. He is wearing a traditional, loose-fitting jacket over a shirt with a high collar, and he has a sash tied across his waist. The sash holds a large knife or sword in a sheath on the left side. The man appears to be wearing a medallion or brooch on a chain…
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Seated Arab with Pipe

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824 - 1904)

c. 1864

Medium
etching on laid paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
plate: 12.5 x 9.9 cm (4 15/16 x 3 7/8 in.) ; sheet: 26.4 x 17.4 cm (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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