Feb 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2695 -

Sale 2695 - Lot 65

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

VICTOR NEHLIG (1830-1909)

LA DAHOMÉENNE / ET LE PNEUMATIQUE MOYSE. Circa 1894.


49¼x32¾ inches, 125x83¼ cm. Cooperative Francaise, Paris.
Condition B: replaced losses in margins and upper image; extensive repaired tears, creases, abrasions and restoration in margins, text and image; water staining at bottom; colors attenuated. Mounted on Chartex.

The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. They fought two wars in the 1890s against France, and were annexed into the French colonial empire in 1894.