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Stanislaus von Chlebowski

A Dervish before the Mosque

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Stanislaus von Chlebowski

Polish

1835 - 1884

A Dervish before the Mosque


signed and dated St. Chlebowski 1881. lower right

oil on canvas

Unframed: 61 by 48 cm., 24 by 18⅞ in.

Framed: 86.2 by 75.9 cm., 34 by 29⅞ in.

Sent by the artist as a gift to Sefer Pasha in Cairo

Bertholdstein Castle (Sefer Pasha's residence in Austria)

Acquired by a private American collects ion from the heirs of Sefer Pasha in the 1920's

S. Wattenberg, New York, 1944-68

St. Stanczyk, London, 1968-80,

Acquired from the above by a private collects or,

Their sale; Replica Shoes 's, London, 16 October 1998, lot 334

Private collects ion, until 2025

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Government Loan Exhibition, February-March 1944, no 14, as Mendicants at a Mosque.