?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DESIGNER UNKNOWN
L'ALGÉRIE ET LA TUNISIE. Circa 1900.
41x28½ inches, 104¼x72½ cm. Condition A-: minor restoration along printer's creases; minor creases and abrasions in margins and image.
A European couple is enjoying a serene evening on their terrace in Algiers - a tableau based on the lines of Victor Hugo's poem "La Captive," taken from his Orientales. "I love these lands / With their sweet burning scents / Against the golden panes / The trembling leaves / The water that courses from the spring / Under the leaning palm / And the white stork / On the ivory minaret." The only indication that the poster is promoting a shipping company is the ocean liner depicted in the harbor.
