SIGNED ESPERON, EGYPT, DATED 1881

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OSMAN PASHA RIFKI
SIGNED ESPERON, EGYPT, DATED 1881
Oil on canvas, Osman Pasha Rifki, elegantly clad in gold-embroidered navy uniform with red sash and tarboush on his head leans up on a silver shamshir in an interior, beside him a gilt table holding a large bound volume, behind him through the open window is visible a landscape with two swaying palm trees and the pyramids in the horizon, in heavy gild frame
Painting 98¾ x 58¼in. (250.8 x 147.7cm.); 115 x 75in. (292 x 191.5cm.) including frame

Provenance

Osman Pasha Rifki, thence by decent

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Lot Essay

Osman Pasha Rifki was the Minister of Defence in Egypt for a short time in the late 1880s during the period of Ahmad Orabi – the Egyptian army general and nationalist who led a revolt against Tawfiq Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan and the increasing European domination of the country. Osman Pasha was a Circassian who also served in the Egyptian-Abyssinian war of 1874-76 and bore the title of Ferik (General) at the time.

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