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Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann
b. Warsaw 1819, d. Copenhagen 1881
A Fellah woman and her baby. Signed and dated
Elisabeth Baumann Jerichau Memphis 1872. Oil
on canvas. 99 x 128 cm.
The work was painted in connection with the artist's two
journeys to the East in respectively 1869-70 and 1874-75.
A Fellah is a peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer of
the original rural population in the Middle East, in this
case from Egypt.
DKK 200.000-300.000 / € 27.000-40.000
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Martinus Rørbye
b. Drammen 1803, d. Copenhagen 1848
A Nubian sitting on a staircase in Rome, smoking a
cigarette. Signed and dated M. R. Rom 1839.
Oil on canvas. 75 x 63 cm.
Thorvaldsens Museum, A Catalogue Raisonné of the
Works of Martinus Rørbye no. 161.
Exhibited: Thorvaldsens Museum, "Martinus Rørbye",
1981 no. 82.
Martinus Rørbye wrote in his diary from Rome on the
18th of November 1839 about his meeting with the Nubian,
whom he met at the steps leading up to the church Santa
Maria in Aracoeli, and whom he immediately made an
appointment with. The painting shows an unusual and
exotic motif in Danish art. DKK 700.000 / € 94.000
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