Lot 586
  • 586

Frederick Goodall

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Frederick Goodall
  • The Light of the Rising Sun upon the Pyramids of Ghizeh
  • signed with the artist's monogram and dated 1897 (lower left); signed and titled (on a handwritten label on the stretcher)
  • oil on canvas
  • 32 by 72 in.; 81.3 by 183 cm.

Condition

Oil on canvas with an old lining. The picture surface is slightly flattened but clean and bright. Under UV light, there are some small dots and dashes of scattered inpainting, especially in the ground beneath the left camel.
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