Lot Closed
April 7, 01:25 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 HKD
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.
