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On the Roof of an Oriental House

On the Roof of an Oriental House

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

Year: 1830
Material: Water- and body-colour with some gum varnish, on paper
Height: 22.8cm, Width: 23.5cm
Museum Code: P677
Also by this artist
A Turkish Gunner / Cannonier turc (Circa 1830)
A Well in the East / Paysage de Syrie (1847)
An Odalisque (Circa 1830-2)
Asses resting: A Turkish Scene / Un village turc (1833)
Cart Horses (1830)
Children Gathering Flowers (1844)
Crossing the River (Circa 1841)
Eastern Figures Reposing / Constantinople: interieur de parc (Circa 1832-3)
Eastern Figures Reposing / Constantinople: interieur de parc (Circa 1832-3)
Eastern Soldiers (Circa 1830)
Eastern Women at a Well / Femmes turques a la fontaine (1851)
Fording a River (1845)
Joseph sold by his Brethren (1838)
Out of School / La sortie de l'ecole: Turquie d'Asie (1841)
Soldier of the Guard of a Vizier (1827)
The Anchorage of Smyrna (Circa 1847)
The Bookworm / Le Philosophe (1846)
The Favourite of the Pasha / Interieur de serail Une odalisque (Circa 1830)
The Finding of Moses / Moise et la fille de Pharaon (1837)
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (Circa 1853)
The Punishment of the Hooks (1837)
The Reading of a Firman (Circa 1833)
The Roman Campagna / Pifferari et campagne de Rome (Circa 1847)
The Turkish Patrol / Une Patrouille a Smyrne (Circa 1828)
The Villa Doria-Pamphili, Rome / Souvenir d'une Villa (Circa 1835)
The Watering Place (Circa 1831/2)
The Watering Place (Circa 1832)
The Witches in Macbeth (Circa 1841/2)