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 $8,000-10,000
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
