Live Auction 14227The Collector: Silver,19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER (FRENCH, 1827-1905)
Lot 561

CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER (FRENCH, 1827-1905)

Bust of Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt

Closed16 November 2017

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GBP 8,125

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CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER (FRENCH, 1827-1905)
Bust of Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt
signed and dated 'CORDIER / 1867', on an ebonised oak plinth
bronze, light brown patina
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high, the bust; 8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) high, overall
Cast circa 1867

The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, London, 17 March 2011, lot 269.

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.