Lot 108
  • 108

Louis François Sébastien Fauvel Clermont-en-Beauvaisis 1753 - 1838 Smyrna

Estimate
4,500 - 6,500 USD
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Description

  • Louis François Sébastien Fauvel
  • portrait of a turkish man in a ceremonial costume
  • signed: Fauvel fecit
  • watercolor over black chalk

Catalogue Note

Fauvel died in Smyrna, so this drawing and lot 109 were presumably made on the spot.  He was following in the footsteps of Liotard, who had had great success making portraits of the Dutch community there one hundred years before.