Charles Camino
Arab Standing Outside the Mosque
1854-1864
Physical Qualities
Watercolor, charcoal, and pen and brown ink over graphite on paper, Sheet: 227 x 143 mm. (22.7 x 14.3 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.18815
Camino specialized in portraits and miniatures and produced numerous watercolors with Orientalist themes. The image of a single figure standing or sitting outside the entrance to a mosque was a standard theme in Orientalism, one that also attracted Tanner. But Camino concentrates on anecdotal details of costume, like the numerous pairs of shed slippers, and the physical attitude of the figure. Tanner, on the other hand, expressed the overall feeling of a street scene as rendered through light and atmosphere.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute', Oct. 12-Nov. 21, 1965, p. 65, no. 323.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris," December 7, 2005 - May 28, 2005.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris," December 7, 2005 - May 28, 2005.
Inscribed: RECTO: LR (pen and blue ink), 'C. CAMINO'.
