10. Edouard Dufeu
(1840-1900)

Rue Souk-El-Selah, au Caire

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Dufeu, Rue Souk-El-Selah, au Caire

Rue Souk-El-Selah, au Caire

Etching, 1865, Bailly-Herzberg 168, 320 x 238 mm. Very fine impression on laid paper with large, full margins and with the blind stamp of the publishers Cadart & Luquet. France had its share of etchers of Africa and the Middle East, most of them, like Dufeu, virtually unknown today. Like almost all French artists of the 19th century, they were well trained technically, knew how to draw and how to etch. Dufeu’s evocation of Cairo is Maxime Lalanne’s technique applied to exotic subject matter, an historical document, if you will, but with far more atmosphere than early photographs of the subject.

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