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ID: 62505 A Turk 1820 Black chalk and watercolour, 301 x 226 mm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris The quiet and melancholy Mustapha was a shipwrecked Turkish sailor G?ricault had found in a Paris street and brought home as a model and companion. It is probably his features, dark eyes sad beneath his turban, that are depicted in several late studies of a Turk that strike the viewer as warmly individualized portraits. Author: G?RICAULT, Th?odore Title: A Turk (Mustapha) Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , French , other
