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- Prosper Marilhat (1811 - 1847)
- Beni Suef on the Nile
- France
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- Date: c. 1833 - 1840
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 44.7 x 72.4 cm
- Inv: P356
- Location: Arms and Armour I
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- The identification of the site is traditional. Beni Suef, on the Nile, is seventy miles south of Cairo. Marilhat, who visited the Middle East in 1831-3, was a pioneer of naturalistic Orientalist scenes such as this (cf. Marilhat, 'On the Banks of the Nile', P293).