A group of bedouins eating at a low table, a bearded man seated on a ledge and three others to the right

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Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756-1827 Versailles)
A group of bedouins eating at a low table, a bearded man seated on a ledge and three others to the right
pen and black ink, watercolour, bodycolour heightened with gum arabic
8 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (206 x 359 mm.)

Provenance

H. Imbert (L. 1323).

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Lot Essay

Comparable to two drawings of bedouins by Cassas exhibited in Tours, Musée des Beaux-Arts and in Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Louis-François Cassas, 1994, nos. 83 and 86. The costume of the bedouins in the present drawing suggests that like the two mentioned above it was made on Cassas' journey through the Syrian desert to Palmyra between 4 May and 25 June 1785.

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