A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople

Provenance

Myles Birket Foster, London [1825-1899]; (his sale, Christie's, London, 28 April 1894, no. 24, as The Mendicant - Interior of a Turkish House); (J & W Vokins, 14 Great Portland Street, London). (sale Sotheby's, London, 24 Feb 1960, no. 47, as The Mendicant, Cairo). (sale Sotheby's, London, 15 June 1960, no. 18, as The Mendicant, Cairo); Private Collection, Switzerland until 2022; (sale, Koller Auktionen AG, Zurich, 23 September, 2022, no. 03472); (Andrew Clayton-Payne, London)

A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople

Lewis, John Frederick

1863

Accession Number

2023.149.1

Medium

watercolor, gouache, gum arabic, and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 33.5 × 32 cm (13 3/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

The Helena E. M. Gunnarsson Fund