Lot 171
  • 171

Alberto Pasini

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alberto Pasini
  • horsemen in shiraz
  • signed A Pasini 1858 lower right
  • oil on canvas
  • 27 by 46cm., 10½ by 18in.

Condition

Original canvas. There are scattered spots of retouching, mainly to the darkest areas of the trees in the composition, and the work is in very good overall condition, with only some slight yellowing of the pigment and scattered small spots of craquelure. Held in a decorative, gold-painted moulded plaster and wood frame with a name plate.
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Catalogue Note

For a drawing of the same view, Viale alberato e palazzo presso Schiraz, dated 28 May 1855, see Alberto Pasini. Itinerario in Oriente, exhibition catalogue, Silbernagl, Milan, 1996, no. 15.