Lon-Franois Comerre (French, 1850-1916)
Lon-Franois Comerre (French, 1850-1916)

Meriem, an Arab Beauty

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Lon-Franois Comerre (French, 1850-1916)
Meriem, an Arab Beauty
signed 'Leon Comerre' (lower right)
oil on canvas
51 x 38 in. (131.4 x 98.4 cm.)

Lot Essay

Two pictures with a similar format of a single figure, three-quarter length, set against a Arabic background are illustrated in George Commerre's monograph on his father (Paris, 1980, p. 89), while a further related picture, Red Poppies, is illustrated in Lynne Thornton's Women as portrayed in Orientalist Painting, Paris, 1985, p. 195.

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