Keywords: Léon Bonnat - An Arab Sheik - Walters 37173 (2).jpg In 1868-69 Bonnat accompanied Jean-Léon Gérôme on a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land During the trip he made a number of sketches which he used as the basis for paintings after he returned to Paris Bonnat was an influential teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and included among his pupils Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Thomas Eakins ca 1870 Oil on canvas cm 65 72 5 ; Framed cm 94 106 7 10 2 accession number 37 173 25856 Mary J Morgan date and mode of acquisition unknown Mrs Mary J Morgan Collection Sale New York March 3-8 1886 no 152 William T Walters city Baltimore Lucas's letter to Walters dated 12/12/84 claims purchase date was 1885 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1886 Signature At lower left Ln Bonnat; Number On old labels removed from the stretcher when canvas was relined in 1963 17 679 13 366 Orientalism The Near East in French Painting 1800-1880 Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Rochester; Neuberger Museum Purchase 1982 Orientalism Delacroix to Klee Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney; Auckland Art Gallery Auckland 1997-1998 place of origin Paris France <gallery> File Léon Bonnat - An Arab Sheik - Walters 37173 jpg </gallery> PD-old-auto 1922 Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Bedouins in Egypt |