TitleThe Sorcerer's Slave
Artist
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
(American, 1851 - 1938)
Date1877
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 18 × 9 1/2 in.
Framed: 24 5/8 × 16 1/8 × 3 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "T. W. DEWING 1877".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, April 30, 1888
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number349-P
Label Text"The Sorcerer's Slave" was executed in Paris while Dewing was studying at the Académie Julian. It is an académie, a full-length study of a nude painted from the live model. The classical treatment of the figure of the young boy, with its elongated contrapposto and careful articulation of anatomical detail, as well as the setting -the palm fronds, the smoking censer, and the elk-skin rug - recall the mannered bodies and Orientalist themes favored by Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre, Dewing's instructors at the Julian.Collections
- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
