This horizontal painting shows a daylit, covered terrace, where two women with pale skin and wearing long dresses lounge and recline along a ledge as a turbaned man with dark brown skin plays a musical instrument. To our left, behind one of the women, the musician's white turban drapes around his neck. His white shirt has wide, salmon-pink cuffs. His head is bent over a stringed instrument with a light yellow rounded body and a long, narrow wooden neck. His features are mostly lost in shadow but his closed lips are dark pink. Behind and framing the musician, a dark green drapery with gold…
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The Favorite of the Emir

Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant (French, 1845 - 1902)

c. 1879

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 142.2 x 221 cm (56 x 87 in.) ; framed: 198.12 × 281.94 × 19.69 cm (78 × 111 × 7 3/4 in.) ; framed weight: 102.059 kg (225 lb.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Courtesy of the United States Naval Academy Museum
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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