Street Scene, Tangier (Man Leading Calf)
ca. 1910
- Medium
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 27 × 34.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-131110
Henry Ossawa Tanner probably painted this scene in his Paris studio from postcards or photographs of Tangier, which he visited two years later. By 1910, Tanner had established himself as a religious painter and used his trips to North Africa and the Middle East for inspiration. This street scene refers to the passage in the Bible in which a man is told to go into the village and retrieve a donkey…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
Registry history
- ca. 1910 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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