Water Carriers on the Banks of the Nile

1894

Émile Bernard French, 1868-1941

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

Water Carriers on the Banks of the Nile: 1 of Collection Gallery

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Title Water Carriers on the Banks of the Nile

Artwork Date 1894

Artist Émile Bernard

Life Dates 1868-1941

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium African mahogany relief with partial polychromy

Dimensions Overall: 20 × 18 1/2 × 1 inches (50.8 × 47 × 2.5 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Museum Purchase, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts General Fund, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, and funds from Mr. & Mrs. Richard Brodie, Ruth Rattner, Jacqueline Eckhous, Robert Welchli and Lillian & Nathan Shaye; gift of Anna Thompson Dodge, by exchange

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2004.74

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, on back: Emile Bernard | 1894

Inscriptions Inscribed, on back, following date and signature: Kaire Inscribed, on Galerie Hopkins Custot label, on back: [Artiste] E. Bernard No 2 | [Titre] Porteuses d'eau sur les bords | du Nil | [Medium] Panneau sur bois sculpté | [Dimensions] 51x 47 cm

Provenance

(Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris, France)

2004-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Darr, Alan. P. and Brian Gallagher. "Recent acquisitions (2000-2006) of European sculpture and decorative arts at The Detroit Institute of Arts." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1251 (June 2007): p. 454, pl. XIX (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Émile Bernard, Water Carriers on the Banks of the Nile, 1894, African mahogany relief with partial polychromy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts General Fund, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, et al., 2004.74.