Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
George Henry Laporte, 1799–1873, British
Title:
Mameluke purchasing an Arabian stallion
Date:
ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/8 x 21 1/8 inches (43.5 x 53.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown paint, lower right: "J.H. Lam [...] [underlined]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.402
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
zucchini | palm trees | horses (animals) | men | stonework | stone | buildings | sculpture | monument | city | turban | bust | headwear | pyramids | desert | genre subject | animal art | sphinx
Associated Places:
Egypt
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., Annual exhibition of sporting paintings : An exhibition of fine English sporting paintings : 5th October - 30th October 1971, Illustrated catalogues price fifty pence in aid of the animal health trust's equine research station , London, 1971, lot 12, DealerCat Arthur Ackermann

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 140-141, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 318, no. 346, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:887