Adolf von Meckel

Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner; thence by descent

Munich, Jubiläumsausstellung, 1888
Probably, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 1890

Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Minden, 1891-1901, vol. II, p. 3, no. 17

This panorama brilliantly evokes the bustling mercantile district of Bulak in Cairo on a hot afternoon. Dhows fill the banks of the Nile, their crews mingling with local tradesmen on the beach. Meckel, a pupil of the Norwegian Hans Gude at the Karlsruhe Academy, first experienced Egypt in 1880, on a two-year journey to the Middle East with fellow artists Eugen Bracht and Carl Schirm. Further visits to Cairo followed in the 1880s. The trips gave rise to a series of monumental views, another of which, dated 1889, of fishermen on Lake Mariout, was sold in these rooms on 24 April 2018.