Sale 205 Lot 1127

EMMANUEL DE DIEUDONNE (Swiss, 1845 - 1889). Harem Beauty with Narguileh, Signed E. Dieudonné lower left. Oil on canvas. Framed.
- Sight: 18 by 15 in.,
Estimate $9,600-16,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby's New York, 18 July 1986, Lot 278
Fil Caravan Inc., New York, 25 March 1997


ARTIST PROFILE: Emmanuel de Dieudonne was active/lived in Switzerland. Emmanuel Dieudonne is known for Portrait, figure, oriental genre painting. As a young artist, Emmanuel de Dieudonné devoted himself to academic art, painting in the style of Alexandre Cabanel, under whom he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His later travels to the Middle East, notably to Turkey, inspired a renewed interest in Orientalist subjects, including portraits. Among the portraits he painted was that of the Turkish Orientalist painter Osman Hamdy Bey