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FIG. 9 (above): Prosper Marilhat (1811–
1847), Mosquée en basse Égypte,
c. 1834–1840.
Oil on canvas. 116.3 × 186 cm.
Acquired by the Musée de la France d’Outre-Mer, 1935.
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, inv. 75.8896.
© Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. Photo: Claude
Germain.
FIG. 10 (left): Émile Bernard (1868–1941),
Portrait d’une femme noire, formerly titled
Étude de négresse, 1895.
Oil on canvase. 115 × 73 cm.
Donated by Lucien Vollard to the Musée de la France
d’Outre-Mer, 1944. Transferred to the Musée des Années
Trente, Boulogne-Billancourt.
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, inv. 75.14389.
© Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. Photo: Claude
Germain.
FIG. 11 (right): George Catlin (1796–1872),
Wa-Ta-We-Buck-A-Nah (the Commanding
General), c. 1846.
Oil on canvas. 81 × 65 cm.
Acquired in 1846 by the civil service; transferred in 1908 to
the Musée des Antiquités Nationales; transferred in 1929 to
the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro; transferred to the
Musée du Louvre, inv. LP 6684.
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac,
inv. 71.1930.54.2005 D.
© Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. Photo: Claude
Germain.