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Otto Reinhold Jacobi 1812 - 1901
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 CAD
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Description
- Otto Reinhold Jacobi
- Indian Encampment
1854
signed and dated lower right O.R. Jacobi 1854; titled and dated on a gallery label on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 66 by 104.1 cm.
- 26 by 41 in.
Provenance
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Sold, Sotheby's, Toronto, Nov. 2003, lot 100
Private Collection, Ontario
Catalogue Note
This painting was done before Jacobi emigrated from Europe in 1860 and draws on "story-book" Indians, perhaps from reading the then popular novels of the wild west by German author Karl May (1842-1912) who had yet to visit North America.