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Ippolito Caffi, Bedouins outside the Gates of Jerusalem

Sold for €5,200 at Lempertz on May 17, 2025.

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Signed lower left: Caffi Born in Belluno, Ippolito moved to Padua and then to Venice at a young age, where he entered the Accademia before later moving to Rome. In 1843, Caffi undertook a journey to the East - visiting Greece, Egypt, Tukey, Syria, Armenia, and Palestine - which he documented in many sketches and vedutas. The present work is an example of Caffi's pictorial mastery in capturing episodes, environments and landscapes, rendering them with an unusual understanding of light and immediacy, which anticipates Impressionism.

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