Cleveland Museum of Art
The Queen of Sheba
Edmund DulacLinkedCulture matchlcp-d579d377d60c
- Date
- 1911
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gouache, with graphite and color wax crayon, on artist’s drawing board
- Culture
- England, 20th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 119940
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
A celebrated artist of the golden age of British book illustration, the French-born Edmund Dulac was inspired by Persian miniatures and manuscript illustration. This watercolor was one of a series of four scenes painted to accompany a poem by André Dumas, Figures of the Orient . Dulac depicted legendary enchantresses of the East: Circe, Salome, Scheherazade, and here, the Queen of Sheba. Aloft a camel, the dark-haired beauty languorously surveys the arid landscape as she and her entourage approach the Holy Land. Vibrant silks spill out of the queen’s gold and lapis howdah, a veritable mosaic of texture and pattern. Edmund Dulac was such a devoted Anglophile that as a student his contemporaries referred to him as "l'Anglais" (English).
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- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Provenance
- ?-1931: James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee, Washington, DC | 1931-1940: Alice Maury Parmelee [1862-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 1940-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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