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Lot 37:
Description
Keywords: No Reserve, 19th century, academic influence, French style, European painting, figurative study, HAREM, interior scene, exotic subject, romanticized figure, decorative composition, period costume
Summary:
Attributed to Frederick Arthur Bridgman, with a partially legible signature lower left. Late 19th century Orientalist School painting depicting a seated woman in a relaxed pose, dressed in a flowing yellow garment with jeweled adornment, set against rich interior drapery.
Bridgman studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme, whose influence helped shape his interest in Orientalist and historical subjects. After moving from New York to France, Bridgman became associated with the American artists working in Pont-Aven, Brittany, before establishing a successful career in Paris. His travels through Spain, North Africa, Algeria, and Egypt during the 1870s and 1880s provided source material for the richly detailed Orientalist compositions for which he became best known.
(Original Canvas, Presents well with some surface craquelure visible throughout and expected scattered age-related wear and minor abrasions.)
Measurement: 24 x 19 3/4 in. (61 x 50.2 cm.) approx
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