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Lot 269 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FRENCH PATINATED BRONZE BUST OF ISMAIL PASHA, KHEDIVE OF EGYPT
CAST FROM THE MODEL BY CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER, DATED 1867
Closed17 March 2011
Price Realised
GBP 1,875
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Specialist note
This finely-cast bronze bust is a reduction of the portrait for which Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (d. 1895), himself sat and which was executed by Charles Cordier (d. 1905) on his first visit to Cairo in 1866. The original life-size marble version of the portrait, is now in the collection of the Musée du Palais de Manial.