Lot description
Ferenc Eisenhut (1857-1903), ''Market in Tanta/Egypt'', lively scene in the morning light. Representative work created in 1886, typical in motif and style, by the important Hungarian Oriental painter, who had been resident in Munich since his studies 1877-1883 at the Academy of Arts under Gyula Benczúr, Ludwig Löfftz and Wilhelm v. Diez. 1883/1884 Eisenhut undertook his first journey to the Orient in the Caucasus up to Baku, afterwards he travelled from Munich to North Africa and Egypt as well as to the Near East. He already became famous for his first Oriental painting ''Healing by the Koran'' from 1883, which Emperor Franz Joseph I. of Austria bought for the royal palace in Buda. Oil on wooden panel, r. lower part signed a. dated 1886 with place Munich. Verso titled on original label, 58 x 45 cm, in original frame approx. 70 x 63 cm.