FELICE SCHIAVONI, 1803-1881 (ITALIAN)
Felice Schiavoni, Portrait of Ropen Carabit, 1824
A formal portrait of Ropen Carabit, Master of Stables at the Imperial Austrian Royal Consul in Aleppo. Carabit transported 8 Arabian horses from Syria to the port of Trieste as a gift from the Imperial Austrian Royal Consul in Aleppo to Francis I, Emperor of Austria (1804–35), the last Holy Roman Emperor (1792–1806).
VICTOR HUGUET, 1835-1902 (FRENCH)
Victor Huguet, The Falconers
A remarkable equestrian landscape capturing the light of dawn with impressionistic undertones. Victor Huguet's other works can be found in the museums of Nîmes, Montpellier, and Marseille.
LEOPOLD CARL MÜLLER, 1834 - 1892 (AUSTRIAN)
Leopold Carl Müller, Portrait of a Nubian Woman
A rare portrait of a Nubian beauty by Leopold Carl Müller, the most important of the Viennese Orientalist painters of the 19th Century movement whose artworks span international museums, most notably, the Belvedere Museum of Vienna.
JOHN ALEXANDER HARRINGTON BIRD, 1846 - 1936 (BRITISH)
Harrington Bird, The Drinking Well
A charming equestrian landscape by Harrington Bird whose international popularity rose in the last quarter of the 19th century through exhibitions at the Royal Academy and Royal Society of British Artists in London, and the Royal Canadian Academy.
HENRI ÉMILIEN ROUSSEAU, 1875 - 1933 (FRENCH)
Henri Émilien Rousseau, Falconers
"My purpose, this time, is the Arab horse. Our European horses cannot give the idea of this flexibility which glitters in the light, of this feminine and firm elegance reminding that of the feline"
- Henri Émilien Rousseau, 1902
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