The Arab Lamenting the Death of his Steed (Q18535265)

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movement: Romanticism (Q37068) Orientalism (Q42865)
genre: nude (Q40446)
artist: Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (Q3164276)
collection: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
location of final assembly: France (Q142)
depicts: Arabs (Q35323) scimitar (Q121308) shield (Q131559) desert (Q8514) saddle (Q192249) horse (Q726)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: http://www.artsbma.org/pieces/larabe-pleurant-son-coursier-the-arab-lamenting-the-death-of-his-steed/

information from the Birmingham Museum of Art catalog

description: Charles Hubert Millevoye’s popular 1808 poem “Le Tombeau de coursier: Chant de L’Arab” (“Memorial to the Steed: The Arab’s Song”) inspired numerous paintings and sculptures. Here the desolate desert…

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