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Auguste Veillon (French 1834-1910)The Temple of Philae, EgyptSigned (lower left) Oil on canvas94.5 x 161cm (37.1/4 x 63.3/8 in) ProvenanceSotheby's London, 2 June 2010, lot 132 (£17,000)Auguste Veillon studied at the École des Beaux-Art in Paris. He was particularly interested in the effect of light and was inspired by the work of Claude Lorrain. His mentor, the famed Orientalist artist Eugène Fromentin, encouraged his interest in the subject and he travelled to Egypt in 1873, the first of four trips. The Temples on the Island of Philae, near Aswan on the Nile have been a draw to artists and travellers for centuries. Edward Lear painted it in many times and Amelia Edwards (1831 - 1892), the British novelist and Egyptologist, wrote: 'The approach by water is quite the most beautiful. Seen from the level of a small boat, the island, with its palms, its colonnades, its pylons, seems to rise out of the river like a mirage. Piled rocks frame it on either side, and the purple mountains close up the distance. As the boat glides nearer between glistening boulders, those sculptured towers rise higher and even higher against the sky. They show no sign of ruin or age. All looks solid, stately, perfect.'A similar, but much smaller view of Philae by Veillon sold at Christie's, London in July 2018 for £30,000.