Live Auction 17295European Art: 19th Century & Orientalist Art
Count Amadeo Preziosi (Maltese, 1816-1882)
Lot 270 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Count Amadeo Preziosi (Maltese, 1816-1882)

Les petits champs des morts at Pera, Constantinople

Closed12 December 2019

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GBP 8,750

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Count Amadeo Preziosi (Maltese, 1816-1882)
Les petits champs des morts at Pera, Constantinople
signed 'Preziosi' (on a label on the backboard)
pencil and watercolour on paper
10 x 14 ½ in. (25.5 x 37 cm.)

Frederic Crutchley, Constantinople.
Private collection, United Kingdom.

Specialist note

This work shows the smaller cemetery at Pera which was a favourite place of resort because it was densely planted with shady trees. We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn and Charles Newton for their assistance in cataloguing the present lot.