L12225

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Lot 327
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Emmanuel de Dieudonné

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Emmanuel de Dieudonné
  • Portrait of Osman Hamdy Bey
  • dedicated, signed and dated à Hamdy bey souvenir / Emmanuel de Dieudonné / 1884 lower left
  • oil on canvas
  • 45.5 by 38cm., 18 by 15in.

Literature

Eldem 2010, p. 171, illustrated

Condition

Original canvas. Under UV light there are just a few scattered minor spots of retouching, notably a couple of very small spots in the side of the sitter's nose. Overall this work is in good condition and is ready to hang. Held in a simple gold-painted wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

This is a portrait of the Turkish painter, archaeologist and polymath Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910), by his contemporary and fellow Orientalist painter Dieudonné.

Fig. 1, Photograph of Osman Hamdi Bey
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