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The Queen of Sheba
1911
Location: not on view
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Edmund Dulac was such a devoted Anglophile that as a student his contemporaries referred to him as "l'Anglais" (English).Description
A celebrated artist of the golden age of British book illustration, the French-born Edmund Dulac was inspired by Persian miniatures and manuscript illustration. This watercolor was one of a series of four scenes painted to accompany a poem by André Dumas, Figures of the Orient. Dulac depicted legendary enchantresses of the East: Circe, Salome, Scheherazade, and here, the Queen of Sheba. Aloft a camel, the dark-haired beauty languorously surveys the arid landscape as she and her entourage approach the Holy Land. Vibrant silks spill out of the queen’s gold and lapis howdah, a veritable mosaic of texture and pattern.- ?-1931James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee, Washington, DC1931-1940Alice Maury Parmelee [1862-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH1940-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- L'Illustration (1911). ReproducedWhite, Colin. Edmund Dulac. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Mentioned: pp. 49-50Hughey, Ann Conolly. Edmund Dulac: His Book Illustrations, A Bibliography. Potomac, MD: Buttonwood Press, 1995. Mentioned: no. 28Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Mentioned: pp. 138-41, 145, no. 48a; Reproduced: p. 139
- British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
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