ALBERTO PASINI
Italian, 1826-1899

Campement des Pélerins de la Mecque au Port de Djeddah, Arabie

Signed A. Pasini
Oil on panel
8¾ x 21½ inches (22.3 x 54.5 cm)
Framed: 18½ x 31½ inches (47 x 80 cm)

This important early Orientalist work by Alberto Pasini was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1859. It depicts pilgrims on their way to Mecca camped outside the city gate of the port of Jeddah.

Provenance
Private Collection, Italy

Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1859, no. 2322
Parma, Retrospettiva d'Arte Emiliana, 1913, no. 107
Turin, Galleria Fogliato, 1973

Literature
Émile Bellier de la Chavinerie and Louis Auvray, Dictionnaire Général des Artistes de l'École Française, New York and London, 1885, p. 212
La Grande Enciclopedie Larousse, Paris, 1890, vol. XXVI, p. 47
Gustave Vaperau, Dictionnaire Universel des Contemporains, Paris, 1893, p. 1216
Enciclopedia Universal Illustrada Europeo-Americana, Madrid and Barcelona, 1930
Marziano Bernardi, Alberto Pasini; G.B. Quadrone, Turin, 1949, p. XLIII
Isabella Lapi Ballerini, "Comme si c'eût été Jérusalem," Antichità Viva, Florence, 1979, p. 45, fig. 18, illustrated
Vittoria Botteri Cardoso, Pasini, Genoa, 1991, p. 250, no. 162, illustrated

$85,000

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