Lot Essay
The present lot depicts a scene from the artist's second expedition to the Middle East in 1868. Testas recorded the landscape in a small travel sketchbook of which the present lot is a single page.
Chasse au désert
Details
Willem de Famars Testas (Dutch, 1834-1896)
Chasse au désert
signed 'W.Testas' (lower left) and signed again and inscribed with title 'Chasse au désert-dans le Fayoum-Egypte-' on the reverse
pencil and watercolour on paper, unframed
11 x 18.5 cm.
Chasse au désert
signed 'W.Testas' (lower left) and signed again and inscribed with title 'Chasse au désert-dans le Fayoum-Egypte-' on the reverse
pencil and watercolour on paper, unframed
11 x 18.5 cm.
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