Lot Essay
The present picture will be included in Loïe Stavrides' catalogue raissoneé of Borget's work currently in preparation.
An Indian Mosque on the Hooghly River near Calcutta, with an elephant and pilgrims
Details
Auguste Borget (1809-1877)
An Indian Mosque on the Hooghly River near Calcutta, with an elephant and pilgrims
signed and dated 'Aug Borget/1846' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23½ x 29½ in. (59.6 x 74.9 cm.)
An Indian Mosque on the Hooghly River near Calcutta, with an elephant and pilgrims
signed and dated 'Aug Borget/1846' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23½ x 29½ in. (59.6 x 74.9 cm.)
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1846, no. 204 as 'Mosquée dans les faubourgs de Calcutta'.