Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873)

Turkish figures smoking a hookah pipe standing beside a horse

Details

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873)
Turkish figures smoking a hookah pipe standing beside a horse
signed with monogram (lower right)
pen and black ink, unframed
5¾ x 4¾in. (14.5 x 12cm.)
see back cover illustration

Provenance

Ex collection Mrs F.L Evans

Literature

R. Ormond
Sir Edwin Landseer, exhibition catalogue
Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Tate Gallery, London
October 1981 - April 1982

Lot Essay

The figures in this drawing compare closely with those seen in Landseer's oil painting Arab stallion with an attendant 1824, currently in private collection. The studies of the Arab attendants suggest that Landseer drew from live models.

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