LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

26.18 in. (66.50 cm.) (height) by 34.02 in. (86.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Elizabeth Nourse and inscribed Tunis (lower left)

Exhibited:

Cincinnati, Taft Museum, MacDowell: the Vital Beginning (in celebration of the Cincinnati MacDowell Society's 70th Anniversary Year), February 12-March 20, 1983, no. D-50

Literature:

M.A. Heekin Burke, Elizabeth Nourse 1859-1938: A Salon Career, Cincinnati, 1983, p. 266, no. D-50. Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists, Paris, 1994, p. 151, illustrated.

Provenance:

Walter S. Schmidt. George E. Fee (by bequest circa 1956). Jean M. Fee (by descent from the above, her husband). George E. Fee III, Hillsboro, Ohio (by descent from the above, his mother, in 1982). Private Collection, Ohio. Berry-Hill Galleries, New York. Borghi & Co., New York. ;