Gabriel Alexandre Decamps
French, 1803–1860
Cypriot Woman Smoking a Chibouk
after 1828
| Medium | watercolor, gouache, and touches of pen and black and brown ink on paper |
| Dimensions | Overall: 5 13/16 x 4 3/16 in. (14.8 x 10.6 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1638 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Gabriel Alexandre Decamps, Cypriot Woman Smoking a Chibouk, after 1828, watercolor, gouache, and touches of pen and black and brown ink on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1638
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963.
Cunningham, Charles C., et al. The Elegant Academics: Chroniclers of 19th-Century Parisian Life. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.
Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
DelPlato, Joan. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875. Cranbury (NJ): Associated Univeristy Press/Rosemount Publishing & Printing Corp.. 2002:Plate 4; p. 82, Fig. 3.12.
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.
