Lot Essay
The present work is the smaller version of a painting in the Walters Art Gallery collection in Baltimore.
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Campement arabe dans les montagnes de l'Atlas
Details
Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820-1876)
Campement arabe dans les montagnes de l'Atlas
signed and dated 'Eug.Fromentin.-/-72.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
13 x 16 ¼ in. (33 x 41.2 cm.)
Campement arabe dans les montagnes de l'Atlas
signed and dated 'Eug.Fromentin.-/-72.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
13 x 16 ¼ in. (33 x 41.2 cm.)
Provenance
René Billotte, Paris (1903).
W.A. Clark, New York.
His sale; American Art Association, New York, 11 January 1926.
Starr Foundation Inc., Kansas City.
Joseph H. Lang, Toronto.
His sale; Christie's, New York, 24 May 1989, lot 33.
with Mathaf Gallery, London (inv. no. S.258.)
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
W.A. Clark, New York.
His sale; American Art Association, New York, 11 January 1926.
Starr Foundation Inc., Kansas City.
Joseph H. Lang, Toronto.
His sale; Christie's, New York, 24 May 1989, lot 33.
with Mathaf Gallery, London (inv. no. S.258.)
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
J. Thompson and B. Wright, Les orientalistes volume 6. Nouvelle Edition. Eugène Fromentin 1820-1876. Visions d'Algerie et d'Égypte, Courbevoie, 2008, p. 341 (illustrated).
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