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174 - After Antoine-Ignace Melling,
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After Antoine-Ignace Melling, Intérieur d'un Café Public, sur la place de Top-hané; and Intérieur d'un Salon du Palais de la Sultane Hadidgé, Soeur de Sélim III, handcoloured engravings, 47 x 67.3 cm. (2) Provenance: Anonymous sale, Christie's South Kensington, 22 September 2005, lot 204 In 1795, Melling was appointed architect to Princess Hatice, sister of the Ottoman Sultan Selim III. In 1803, after executing a number of views of the city and its surroundings, Melling returned to Paris where, in 1804, he issued a prospectus for the Voyage Pittoresque. The Publication began in 1809 and was finally completed in 1819 (issuing thirteen livraisons). This work is of great historical and iconographical interest for the depiction of the Ottoman world at the very beginning of the 19th century. Moreover,it is on the strength, the success and the artistic qualityof these views that Melling earned the title of Landscape Painter to the Empress Josephine, wife ofNapoleon.
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