Name of Object:

Asia. Athalide

Name in original language:

L´Asie. Athalide

Location:

Madrid, Spain

Holding Institution:

National Museum of Romanticism

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Holding Institution (original language):

Museo Nacional del Romanticismo

Date of Object:

c. 1830

Author:

Pierre Louis Grevedon (17 October 1776, París-01 June 1860)

Inventory Number:

MR5333

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Paper; ink; lithography

Dimensions:

41,9 x 33,8 cm

Provenance:

France, Paris

Description:

In this lithography, Asia is represented as a woman dressed in Turkish style. She is Athalide, the lover of Bayaceto, in a 1762 play by Jean Racine. She wears Circassian clothes. Orientalist painting usually represents Circassian women in the seraglios or harems.

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Carmen Linés Viñuales "Asia. Athalide" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;es;38;en

Prepared by: Carmen Linés Viñuales
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

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