Art, literature & history
Arabe veillant le corps de son ami (Arab Watching over the Body of His Friend)
1866
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 21.5 × 41.2 cm (8 7/16 × 16 1/4 in.) sheet: 37.1 × 54.8 cm (14 5/8 × 21 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2013.116.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Marià Fortuny. Arabe veillant le corps de son ami (Arab Watching over the Body of His Friend). Mariano Fortuny y Carbó; 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:Mariano_Fortuny_y_Carb%C3%B3,_Arabe_veillant_le_corps_de_son_ami_(Arab_Watching_over_the_Body_of_His_Friend),_1866,_NGA_163157.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Arabe veillant le corps de son ami (Arab Watching over the Body of His Friend) — Mariano Fortuny Marsal. 1866.
Medium: etching and aquatint on buff laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 21.5 × 41.2 cm (8 7/16 × 16 1/4 in.) sheet: 37.1 × 54.8 cm (14 5/8 × 21 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2013.116.1. Purchased as the Gift of Jimmy and Jessica Younger, Houston .
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.