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Gabriel Alexandre Decamps
French, 1803–1860
Caravan Halted at an Oasis
1840
Image Caption
Gabriel Alexandre Decamps, Caravan Halted at an Oasis, 1840, watercolor over pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1637
Medium
watercolor over pencil on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 8 9/16 x 11 5/16 in. (21.7 x 28.8 cm)
Object Number
1955.1637
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Moreau, Adolphe. Decamps et son oeuvre. Paris: D.Jouaust. 1869. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
Provenance
J. Fau (sale Paris, January 7–8, 1850); Marquis d'Hertfort; Robert Sterling Clark.