Emmanuel de BARBOT, French artist born in Geneva, active aro - Lot 1

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Emmanuel de BARBOT, French artist born in Geneva, active aro - Lot 1
Emmanuel de BARBOT, French artist born in Geneva, active around 1850-1870. Camp in Suez, 1854, first exploration trip of Ferdinand de Lesseps in the Suez Isthmus with Linant bey Mouget bey and Aïvas. Pencil drawing and white gouache highlights. Signed lower left and dated December 24, 1854. H_14.5 cm W_24.5 cm, wetted in the lower part. Double-sided frame with a photo on the reverse. Emmanuel de BARBOT, French artist born in Geneva, active around 1850-1870. Suez, view taken from the place where the freshwater canal is due to emerge, Ferdinand de Lesseps' first voyage of exploration. in the Suez Isthmus with Linant bey Mouget bey and Aïvas. Pencil drawing and white gouache highlights. Signed lower left and dated December 24, 1854. H_14 cm W_25 cm. Framed on the reverse: Louis Maurice A. LINANT DE BELLEFONDS (1799-1883) Camp at Timsah Lake, by M. Linant-Bey, Ferdinand de Lesseps' first voyage of exploration in the Isthmus of Suez with Linant bey Mouget bey and Aïvas, 1854. Pencil drawing, watercolour and white gouache highlights. H_13 cm W_20 cm Emmanuel de Barbot was in Egypt between 1845 and 1855. He exhibited at the Salon from 1863 to 1866. Louis Maurice Linant de Bellefonds, also known as Linant Pacha is an explorer of Egypt and engineer in charge of the construction of the Suez Canal, famous for his drawings of Egypt and Sudan. Provenance: collection of the painter and sculptor Paul-François Berthoud (1870-1939)
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