* Portrait du Nawab Kamkar Khan
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India, late 18th - early 19th century
Album page featuring a gouache portrait of a dignitary on the front and a European engraving on the back.
Miniature size: 14.5 x 9 cm (page size: 33.5 x 25 cm)
This intriguing album page bears witness to the circulation of European engravings in Mughal court libraries. They conveyed new themes and subjects that greatly inspired Persian and Indian artists. The engraving, entitled The Old Libertine, was created by Johann Theodor de BRY (1561-1623) after a drawing by Agostino Carracci (1557-1602) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 27.78.1(402).
Provenance:
This lot is sold as a temporary import.
An Indian album page, with the portrait of the Nawab Kamkar Khan on the recto, and a European engraving of an Italian drawing on the reverse ( now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York), 18th century.
BOURGOIN (Jules)
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Arab arts. Architecture - Carpentry - Bronzes - Ceilings - Coverings - Marbles - Pavements - Stained glass - etc. Avec une table descriptive et explicative et le trait général de l'art arabe. Paris, Vve A. Morel, et Cie, 1873.
Large in-folio red half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Large dark stain on spine, rubbed and worn.
(2) ff. 3-[1]-4-[4]-VIII-28 pp. pp. 92 plates, 50 in color. foxing and light dampening. Ex-libris
Unique edition of a monumental reference work compiling monument surveys carried out by the author, an architect by training, during his stay in Egypt, Syria and Palestine from 1863 to 1867. The work introduced Europeans to Arab ornamentation, and quickly became very popular, especially as it benefited from the new chromolithography technique, which enabled sumptuous color plates to be produced.
Viollet-le-Duc summed up this important study as follows: "one of those collections of engravings that are pleasant to look through, and which adorn the libraries of architects and decorators, but which are hardly ever consulted", but "a practical and complete treatise which uncovers a whole new order of composition".
Jules Bourgoin (1838-1908) was an architect and theorist of ornament. Sent to Alexandria to teach, he was captivated by the Orient, and during his stay collected the data he used to publish "Les arts arabes".
LE CHATELIER Alfred
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Les confréries musulmanes du Hedjaz, Bibliothèque orientale Elzévirienne LII, Ernest Leroux, Editeur, 28, rue Bonaparte, 1887
In-12, bound in half cloth with corners by Frères Barets in Bordeaux, smooth spine adorned with title-piece, 310pp. Documented study of the various Muslim brotherhoods existing in the Hedjaz, mainly in Mecca, in the 19th century. Based on sources collected in Cairo from pilgrims returning from Mecca, the author analyzes the religious orders of Hijaz and provides an overview of the situation of Islam in the 19th century. The study lists 20 schools of thought (Kadriya, Senoussya, Chadelya, Tidjania, Aissaouia...), provides biographies of their founders, and describes their rules, practices and societal role. Alfred Le Chatelier (1855-1929): Saint-Cyrien, officer and explorer stationed in Algeria, professor at the Collège de France, where he was the first holder of the chair of Muslim sociography (1902-1925), instigator of the Mission scientifique du Maroc (1904) and founder of the journal Monde Musulman (1906). During his time in Algeria, he took part in numerous exploratory missions (Flatters mission, etc.) and studies in North Africa and Egypt, where he studied Muslim religious brotherhoods.
The Muslim brotherhoods of the Hedjaz by A. LE CHATELIER
A documented study of the various Muslim brotherhoods that existed in the Hijaz, mainly in Mecca, in the 19th century. Based on sources collected in Cairo from pilgrims returning from Mecca, the author analyses the religious orders of the Hijaz and provides an overview of the situation of Islam in the 19th century. The study lists 20 schools of thought (Kadriya, Senoussya, Chadelya, Tidjania, Aissaouia, etc.), provides biographies of their founders and describes their rules, practices and social role. Alfred Le Chatelier (1855-1929): Saint-Cyrien, officer and explorer stationed in Algeria, professor at the Collège de France, where he was the first holder of the chair of Muslim sociography (1902-1925), instigator of the Scientific Mission of Morocco (1904) and founder of the journal Le Monde Musulman (1906). During his time in Algeria, he took part in numerous exploratory missions (Flatters mission, etc.) and studies in North Africa and Egypt, where he studied Muslim religious brotherhoods.
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