A Turk (Mustapha)
by GÉRICAULT, Théodore, Black chalk and watercolour, 301 x 226 mm
The quiet and melancholy Mustapha was a shipwrecked Turkish sailor G�ricault had found in a Paris street and brought home as a model and companion. It is probably his features, dark eyes sad beneath his turban, that are depicted in several late studies of a Turk that strike the viewer as warmly individualized portraits.