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Lot description
(Davesco 1815–1884 Turin) Constantinople - Beyoğlu, signed, dated C. Bossoli.1847, tempera on cardboard, 50 x 40 cm, framed Provenance: Private Collection, Italy, for two generations. Catalogued and illustrated in: Ada Peyrot, Carlo Bossoli - Luoghi, personaggi, costumi, avvenimenti nell’Europa dell’Ottocento, visti dal pittore ticinese, Turin 1974, p. 118, no. 142. The present painting depicts a street in the historic centre of Beyoğlu, the European quarter of Constantinople. In the background the white Nusretiye Mosque, built in 1823 under Sultan Mahmud II, stands out against the warm, amber tones of the foreground, which are pierced only by the yellowish glimmers of light from an approaching thunderstorm.