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Lot Description

Eugène Fromentin

(French, 1820-1876)

Le Campement Arabe

oil on canvas

signed Eug. Fromentin (lower right)

19 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches.

Provenance:
Sold: Parke Bernet, New York, January 23, 1952, Lot 29
Edmund Courtenay Benson, New York, acquired at the above sale
Thence by descent
Sold: Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 2015, Lot 525
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Lot note:
The present work is a variant of the artist's Le Campement arabe now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (see: James Thompson and Barbara Wright, Eugène Fromentin, 1820-1876, Visions d'Algérie et d'Égypte, Paris, 2008, p. 374, illus.).

Condition Report

Framed: 25 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches.

The canvas is not lined. There is some buckling in canvas along the upper edge and the right corner. Impressions from the stretcher bar across the center. The varnish is yellowed and soiled. Vertical craqulure on the figure at right. Under UV light: the canvas has been cleaned at one point only on the horse and the lighter area in the foreground, with the darker areas remaining under the old, opaque varnish. The signature has not been cleaned. Any possible inpainting no longer reads under ultraviolet light.

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