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Seated Bedouin Figure
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
1869-1870
- Medium
- Oil paint on brown paper
- Classification
- Figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- 35.1 × 26.6 cm (13 13/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- New York
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Figure study of an individual outfitted in Bedouin clothing. Seated, the figure leans back and crosses his ankles as he holds a long rifle that is propped against his shoulder. He glares out of frame to the left. Although wearing the flowing headdress and draped clothing of the Bedouin people, this individual is actually Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone, Church's neighbor who he dressed up to serve as a model. Foreground and background are indeterminate and hastily painted.
