File:Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ - A Eunuch's Dream - 1991.173 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ: A Eunuch's Dream
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Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ |
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| Title |
A Eunuch's Dream |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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This painting, inspired by Charles Montesquieu's Persian Letters (published in 1721), depicts a eunuch who wanted to marry a harem slave. He experienced a vision of her while smoking his opium pipe, but her little companion holding a knife dripping with blood reminds us that the eunuch's anatomy precludes the fulfillment of his dream. The outline of a hand next to the signature is a khamsa, a symbol used to ward off evil. |
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| Date | 1874 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on panel | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Framed: 54 x 74.5 x 5.5 cm (21 1/4 x 29 5/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 39.3 x 65.4 cm (15 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Modern European Painting and Sculpture |
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1991.173 |
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| Place of creation | France, 19th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Noah L. Butkin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.173  |
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.173 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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