Jules Georges Bondoux (1866-1919) - The Tauris Gate (persian), Circa 1902-1903

Jules Georges Bondoux (1866-1919)
La Porte De Tauris (Persia), Circa 1902-1903
Oil on panel
21 x 32.5 cm
31 x 43 cm with its frame
Signed, dedicated and dated lower left "Souvenir affectionate à notre little cousin Antoinette "J Georges Bondoux, 1910"

Tabriz (azéri et persan تبریز, anciennement Tauris), est la capitale de la province de l'Azerbaïdjan oriental, au nord-ouest de l'Iran (Azerbaïdjan iranien)

In 1902-1903, the artist carried out a mission in Persia alongside the archaeologist Jacques de Morgan, he will bring back many small travel paintings including probably this one that he will dedicate in 1910 to this little cousin Antoinette. Jacques de Morgan was one of the first discoverers of ancient Persia. Bondoux will also use the studies carried out on the spot to carry out monumental works in order to decorate one of the rooms then assigned to the excavations of Susa , from the Department of Oriental Antiquities, at the Louvre Museum (decoration now deposited).