Gustave Achille Guillaumet (French, 1840-1887)
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ORIENTALIST COLLECTION (LOTS 77, 93, 94)
Gustave Achille Guillaumet (French, 1840-1887)

On the bank of the El Kantara river

Details
Gustave Achille Guillaumet (French, 1840-1887)
On the bank of the El Kantara river
signed 'G. Guillaumet' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 31 in. (55.5 x 78 cm.)
Provenance
Charles Courtoy.
with Kurt E. Schon Ltd, New Orleans.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1985, lot 16.
with Mathaf Gallery, London (inv. no. K.197).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
G. Guillaumet, Tableaux Algériens, Paris, 1888 (illustrated as a heliogravure by Dujardin, opposite p. 202).
L. Thornton, Les Orientalistes: Peintres voyageurs 1828-1908, Paris, 1983, p. 148 (illustrated).

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