拍品 25
  • 25

EUGÈNE DELACROIX | Sidi Abdallah, provincial ruler of the Regency of Algiers, rue Amour. June 27th 1832

估價
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
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描述

  • Follower of Eugene Delacroix
  • Sidi Abdallah, provincial ruler of the Regency of Algiers, rue Amour. June 27th 1832
  • 14 x 22 cm ; 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 in.
watercolor heightened with white gouache on paper

來源

Private collection ;
Galerie Brame & Lorenceau, Paris

Condition

- loose sheet of paper - very lightly scotched on the borders - two minor foxing spots upper left - small wears on the darker drapery below the cushions lower left Perfect condition.
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拍品資料及來源

This watercolour was painted by Delacroix in Algeria during his stay in Algiers from June 25 to 28 1832. During the last three days of his trip with the Count de Mornay in North Africa, he discovered a mysterious and captivating Algiers, through the intermediary of the painters William Wyld and Emile Lessore. Delacroix was introduced to Léopold-Victor Poirel, head engineer of the port who succeeded in getting him authorization to enter a harem. The Turkish owner, Sidi Abdallah, previously Reis du dey of Algeria was also a former corsair. His house was situated near the port, on the corner of the small rue Amour (rue de Chartres) and the Khear-Pacha mosque, which was later destroyed.

This unhoped for glimpse of a world forbidden to men inspired four watercolours by Delacroix of the sisters Mouni, Sohra and Bahya Ben, and their neighbor, Zohra Taboudji. These compositions would later serve as preparatory sketches for the famous painting Femmes d'Alger dans leur intérieur (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Another watercolour showing Sidi Abdallah in an identical position, is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue Orientalism, Delacroix to Klee, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997, p.60; n°5, and is kept in an Australian private collection.

We would like to thank the Galerie Brame & Lorenceau for confirming the authenticity of this work. It will be included in the digital catalogue on Delacroix's Oeuvre in preparation.