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Working in Paris, Mariano Fortuny y  Marsal referenced elements from different cultures to construct this fictional scene, which is based on sketches he made and objects he collected while traveling in North Africa. The figure carries items from that region, such as the <em>kabyle<\/em> musket slung across his shoulders and a <em>haik<\/em>, the white outer garment encircling his head, neck, and lower body. The <em>pata<\/em> (gauntlet sword) and powder flask hanging from his waist, however, are of Indian origin.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"41 \u00d7 32.9 cm (16 1\/8 \u00d7 12 15\/16 in.); Framed: 68.6 \u00d7 61 \u00d7 8.9 cm (27 \u00d7 24 \u00d7 3 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":32,"height":41,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":8,"width":61,"height":68,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower right: Fortuny '70\/ A MI AMIGO J GOYENA","credit_line":"George F. Harding Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1983\u201384 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 45.\n\nMark-Allan Rogl\u00e1n Kelley, \u201cLa pintura espa\u00f1ola del siglo XIX en las colecciones p\u00fablicas norteamericanas: Una primera aproximaci\u00f3n,\u201d vol. 2 (Ph.D. diss., Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid, 2001), no. 89.\n\nJavier Bar\u00f3n, Fortuny (1838-1874), exh. cat. (Museo Nacional del Prado, 2017), p. 35, 228-230, 233, 299, 311, 467.","exhibition_history":"Albuquerque, Albuquerque Museum, Fortuny to Picasso: Prelude to Spanish Modernism, August 21\u2013November 27, 2005, cat. 4; Dallas, Meadows Museum, December 11, 2005\u2013February 26, 2006.\n\nMadrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Fortuny (1838-1874), Nov. 21, 2017-March 18, 2018, cat. 64 (ill.).","provenance_text":"Edmund C. 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