"Hst The Port Of Alexandria Signed Alfred De Saint Edme"
An oil on canvas representing "the transhipment of the dispatch arriving from India to Suez. This painting is signed lower right A. de st Edme and annotated on the back on the frame "port of Alexandria (Egypt) transhipment of the dispatch arriving from India to Suez". Good condition. Dimensions 41cmx60cm. 19th century. Unframed. Ludovic Alfred de Sint Edme is a French artist born in 1820 and died in 1903. Draughtsman, illustrator and portraitist, he began at the salon in 1848 and appeared there until 1872. He traveled to Mexico, Louisiana, Martinique then Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and India. These travels correspond to his orientalist period.