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CHARLES THÉODORE FRÈRE (Paris 1814-1888 Paris) Busy Street Scene with a Minaret.
Watercolor on thick wove paper mounted on card stock. 223x138 mm; 8x53/4 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower left.
Frère traveled extensively through the Middle East from the 1830s through the middle 1850s. By 1855 he began exhibiting mainly Orientalist works at the Salon in Paris and he continued to show mainly works inspired by his Middle Eastern travels for the next 3 decades.
