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Béchard, Émile
(active in Egypt, 1869-1890)Market and street scenes in Cairo, Thèbes and Port d' Assouan

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Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Market and street scenes in Cairo, Thèbes and Port d'Assouan. Mid-1870s. 5 albumen prints, mounted to card. Circa 27 x 21,5 cm and reverse. Each with photographer's name in lower right corner, as well as numbered and titled in lower right/left in the negative, collector's stamp "P. Reinhart-Sulzer, Winterthur" in lower right corner on the mount.

The images in this group include an Arabian café, a market spice seller, women washing laundry, Thèbes and Port d'Assouan.


Literatur: Ken Jacobson. Odalisques and Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925. London: Quaritch, 2007, see pp. 210-212.