Prosper Marilhat
Beneath the Archway
1827-1837
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Prosper Marilhat
Beneath the Archway
1827-1837
Physical Qualities
Oil on wood panel, Unframed (Sight): 11 7/8 × 8 1/8 in. (30.2 × 20.6 cm.)
Framed: 17 3/4 × 14 × 3 1/2 in. (45.1 × 35.6 × 8.9 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.45.195
Marilhat’s earliest artistic efforts were limited to family portraits and
landscape views of locales painted in his birthplace, the Auvergne
region of central France. Shortly after moving to Paris in 1829, he
was engaged by Austrian naturalist, Baron Karl von Hügel, to
accompany an expedition to the Near East. In the course of a twoyear
sojourn, from 1831 to 1833, he visited Greece, Syria, Palestine,
and Egypt, making numerous sketches and watercolors which would
inspire much of his subsequent production.
Publication References
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Museum; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, page 290, fig. 1.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
2011-09-19 00:00:00
2011-09-19 00:00:00
A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2021
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2022
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2024
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2025
Inscribed: FACE: BL, 'MARILHAT'. VERSO, FRAME: UR, 'BMA cat./1965/#192'; C, 'MARILHAT - 1811 (? partly visible) - 1847 -/Pupil of ROQUEPLAN -/...?'