The Orientalist Sale

The Orientalist Sale

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EUGÈNE GIRARDET | THE WEAVERS

Lot Closed

April 7, 01:25 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

EUGÈNE GIRARDET

French

1853 - 1907

THE WEAVERS


signed and dated Eugène Girardet. 1888. lower left; signed and indistinctly inscribed on the reverse

oil on canvas

125 by 184cm., 49 by 72½in.


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This intimate domestic scene shows four generations of Algerian women at work together, most likely in a local workshop. Weavers were a favourite subject among the Orientalists. Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Marie-Aimée Lucas-Robiquet, Alexis Delahogue and Gustave Guillaumet all painted similar scenes set in Algeria and Tunisia.