# A Turk \(Mustapha\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GÉRICAULT, Théodore]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Black chalk and watercolour, 301 x 226 mm ## Commentary A Turk \(Mustapha\) c. 1820 Black chalk and watercolour, 301 x 226 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris The quiet and melancholy Mustapha was a shipwrecked Turkish sailor Géricault 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. ## Related artworks - [A Carabinier with his Horse]() - [A Charge of Cuirassiers]() - [A Madwoman and Compulsive Gambler]() - [An Officer of the Chasseurs Commanding a Charge]() - [English Horse in Stable]() - [Grey Horse Called L'Aly]() - [Heroic Landscape with Fishermen]() - [Horse Market: Five Horses at the Stake]() - [Man with Delusions of Military Command]() - [Nymph and Satyr \(Jupiter and Antiope\)]() - [Portrait of a Kleptomaniac]() - [Portrait of a Man]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()