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Tenth Day, Ninth Story: Saladin Bestows Rich Gifts on the Sleeping Torello
c. 1757
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink with brown wash over touches of red chalk on laid paper, laid down
- Dimensions
- overall (to outer framing line): 11.3 x 5.7 cm (4 7/16 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1942.9.760
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Hubert François Gravelot. Tenth Day, Ninth Story: Saladin Bestows Rich Gifts on the Sleeping Torello. Hubert François Gravelot; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Fran%C3%A7ois_Gravelot,_Tenth_Day,_Ninth_Story_-_Saladin_Bestows_Rich_Gifts_on_the_Sleeping_Torello,_c._1757,_NGA_1941.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Tenth Day, Ninth Story: Saladin Bestows Rich Gifts on the Sleeping Torello — Hubert François Gravelot. c. 1757.
Medium: pen and black ink with brown wash over touches of red chalk on laid paper, laid down.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall (to outer framing line): 11.3 x 5.7 cm (4 7/16 x 2 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1942.9.760. Widener Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.