LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

51.38 in. (130.50 cm.) (height) by 34.65 in. (88.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed E Vernet Lecomte and dated 1869 (center left)

Exhibited:

Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal; Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf, October 2006-December 24, 2007 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2006-2010 (on loan) Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Europe's Exoticized East: Orientalist Art of the 19th Century, May 22-September 6, 2010, no. 39.

Literature:

Catherine MacKenzie, Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf, exh. cat., Montreal, 2006, p. 44 Patrick Shaw Cable, Europe's Exoticized East: Orientalist Art of the 19th Century, Hamilton, Ontario, 2010, p. 45, illustrated p. 46, pl. 30.

Provenance:

Baron N.A. Steengracht van Moyland (and sold, his sale: Preyer & Co., Hotel de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, September 10, 1895, lot 110) Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf Forced auction of the stock of Galerie Stern at Lempertz, Cologne, November 13, 1937, lot 168 (unsold) Forced auction of the stock of Galerie Stern at the premises of Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf, December 15, 1937, lot 168 Collection of a Lady of Title and thence by descent Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 2, 2001, lot 30, illustrated Private American Collection Restituted to the Estate of Dr. Max Stern, 2006