# Seated Bedouin Figure

- By: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23568)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6d2f2d0e4bd9a22d70f2c814ca2f64be.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.