"Fortunio XIX Oil Orientalist Algeria Blida Marabout Sidi Yacoub 19th"
FORTUNIO XIXth XXth Oil on canvas depicting the Marabout of Sidi-Yacoub in Algeria in the nineteenth century Beautiful animated scene of characters walking under the trees and around the mausoleum. The trees and the blue shadows on the stage are very successful. We add a postcard to locate the scene from the late nineteenth Canvas stretched and reforced on posterior frame Dimensions canvas 54X73 cm Frame 68X87 cm Fortunio was correspondent of the London newspaper: "The illustrated news" Bibliography: Algeria painters , 1830-1960, M. VIDAL-BUE, Editions Paris-Méditerranée, 2002. Frame in golden stucco with vines of vines