File:Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ - A Eunuch's Dream - 1991.173 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg

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Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ: A Eunuch's Dream  wikidata:Q60476671 reasonator:Q60476671
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Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ
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Title
A Eunuch's Dream
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
This painting, inspired by Charles Montesquieu's Persian Letters (published in 1721), depicts a eunuch who wanted to marry a harem slave. He experienced a vision of her while smoking his opium pipe, but her little companion holding a knife dripping with blood reminds us that the eunuch's anatomy precludes the fulfillment of his dream. The outline of a hand next to the signature is a khamsa, a symbol used to ward off evil.
Date 1874
date QS:P571,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q287,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Framed: 54 x 74.5 x 5.5 cm (21 1/4 x 29 5/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 39.3 x 65.4 cm (15 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Accession number
1991.173
Place of creation France, 19th century
Credit line Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
References https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.173 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.173
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