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Jules-Joseph-Augustin Laurens (French, 1825-1901)
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Jules-Joseph-Augustin Laurens (French, 1825-1901)

The Kavak Meydan, Boz Tepe beyond, Trebizond, Turkey

Fermé29 October 2010

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GBP 3,000

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Jules-Joseph-Augustin Laurens (French, 1825-1901)
The Kavak Meydan, Boz Tepe beyond, Trebizond, Turkey
inscribed 'Le Meïdan de Trébizonde' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on blue paper
11½ x 17¼ in. (29.2 x 43.8 cm.)

with James MacKinnon, London, July 1988, where purchased by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

The present work was executed circa 1846 at the time of Homer de Hell's expedition to Persia, for which Laurens was the artist. The drawing is not of what is known as the Meydan at Trebizond, but of the Kavak Meydan on the way to Hagia Sophia, with Boz Tepe in the background.