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| Keywords: Prosper Marilhat - Landscape with Mosque - Walters 3796.jpg Marilhat participated in a scientific expedition to Greece Syria Palestine and Egypt in 1831 He remained in Cairo for two years until he was forced by ill health to return to Paris For the remainder of his career Marilhat popularly known as The Egyptian continued to produce paintings of Near Eastern subjects Though they were admired for their exotic quality his paintings with their precise delineation of forms remained essentially neoclassical in style century 19 Oil on canvas cm 56 47 ; Framed cm 82 55 73 66 accession number 37 96 3111 Montaignac Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1902 Signature Lower right P MARILHAT The Romantic Circle Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford 1952 A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 place of origin Cairo Egypt Walters Art Museum license 2D Prosper Marilhat Exoticism in European culture Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1831 in Egypt Mosques in Egypt | ||||
