Gabriel Alexandre Decamps
French, 1803–1860
Caravan Halted at an Oasis
1840
| Medium | watercolor over pencil on paper |
| Dimensions | Overall: 8 9/16 x 11 5/16 in. (21.7 x 28.8 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1637 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Gabriel Alexandre Decamps, Caravan Halted at an Oasis, 1840, watercolor over pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1637
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966.
Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
Moreau, Adolphe. Decamps et son oeuvre. Paris: D.Jouaust. 1869.
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.
Provenance
J. Fau (sale Paris, January 7–8, 1850); Marquis d'Hertfort; Robert Sterling Clark.
