LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

46.06 in. (117.00 cm.) (height) by 64.17 in. (163.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Eug. Fromentin lower right and dated 1864 lower left

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon, 1864, no. 758 (as Coup de vent dans les plaines d'Alfa (Sahara)); La Rochelle, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Eugène Fromentin: Le Peintre et l'Ecrivain, 1970, no. 63; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, The Other Nineteenth Century: Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Tanenbaum, 1978 (addition to exhibition) ; London, Royal Academy of Arts; Washington, D. C., The National Gallery of Arts, The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, 1984, no. 23, illustrated in the catalogue; Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales; Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery, Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee, 1997-98, no. 18, illustrated in the catalogue; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on long-term loan November 2007 - October 2016

Literature:

Maxime du Camp, 'Salon de 1864', in Revue des Deux Mondes, 1 June 1864, no. 694-95; Léo Lagrange, 'Salon de 1864', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1864, XVII, p. 20; Th. Thoré, 'Salon de 1864', in Salons de W. Burger 1861-1868, Paris, 1870, p. 87; Louis Gonse, 'Eugène Fromentin, peintre et écrivain ', in Gazette des Beaux­ Arts, 1878, vol. I, p. 410; 1879, vol. II, p. 288; Louis Gonse, Eugène Fromentin, peintre et écrivain, Paris, 1881, pp. 79-80, illustrated opp. p. 58 with engraving by M. Lalanne (as Le Simoon); Victor Fournel, Les artistes français contemporains, Tours, 1884, p. 388; Henry Roujon, 'Fromentin' in Les Peintres Illustrés, Paris, 1912, no. 32, pl. IV (illustrated as Le Sirocco a l'oasis); Prosper Darbec, Eugène Fromentin, Paris, 1926, p. 83, illustrated p. 67 (as Le Khamsin); Henri Focillon, La Peinture au XIXe siècle, Paris, 1927, vol.II, p. 219; James Thompson & Barbara Wright, Les Orientalistes, Eugène Fromentin, Paris, 1987, p. 201, catalogued & illustrated; Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, pp. 120-21, catalogued & illustrated

Provenance:

David Sellar; Louis Sarlin (sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2 March 1918, lot 46); Rex Ingram (1893-1950); Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Tanenbaum, Toronto (by 1979); Sale: Sotheby's, Los Angeles, 12 March 1979, lot 50; Kurt E. Schon, Ltd., New Orleans, Louisiana; Coral Petroleum, Inc., Texas (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1985, lot 9); Mathaf Gallery, London; Purchased from the above