Lot 227
  • 227

Léon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Description

  • Léon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly
  • Big ridden camel grazing, Study for Pilgrims going to Mecca
  • Bears the sale stamp lower right ; Bears two old label on the back 34 and 5891 and traces of an old gallery label
  • Oil on canvas
  • 60,5 x 50 cm ; 23 3/4 by 19 3/4 in.

Provenance

The artist's family ;
Purchased from the above in 1993 by the current owners

Exhibited

Exposition des oeuvres de Léon Belly, Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1878, n°53 (belonging to Madame Belly) ;
Maybe, Cinquième exposition des peintres orientalistes français, rétrospective Léon Belly, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1898, n°18 ;
Exposition nationale coloniale, Exposition rétrospective des Orientalistes français, Marseille, 1906, n°4 (belonging to Madame Belly) ;
Le Centenaire de Léon Belly, Rétrospective, Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin, Saint-Omer, 1977, n°34

Literature

Conrad de Mandach, "Artistes contemporains, Léon Belly", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, article mentioning the studies for the final painting, 1913, p. 154