Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet, called Horace Vernet (1789-1863)

A Café in Tlemeen, Algeria

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Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet, called Horace Vernet (1789-1863)
A Café in Tlemeen, Algeria
inscribed 'un Café à Tlemen' and with inscription 'C.V.'
black lead, pen and grey ink, grey wash, watercolour, bodycolour, fragmentary watermark device
230 x 303 mm.
Provenance
Renier Chalon.
Adolphe Crespin.
M. Delacre (L. 747a), his number '8'; Berne, Gutekunst and Klipstein, 21-2 June 1949, lot 469.

Lot Essay

Vernet travelled in Algeria in March 1843 and went to Orano, Tlemeen and Isly. Thereafter he went to Mogador in Morocco.

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