Eugène Fromentin

Sale: Parke Bernet, New York, 23 January 1952, lot 29

Edmund Courtenay Benson, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 2015, lot 525 (sold by the descendants of the above)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

The present work relates to the artist's Le Campement arabe now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (see: James Thompson and Barbara Wright, Eugène Fromentin, 1820-1876, Visions d'Algérie et d'Égypte, Paris, 2008, p. 374, illustrated).