19th Jun, 2025 12:00
Arts of India and the Islamic Lands
96
A LEVANTINE MAIDEN WEARING A DESERT HEADSCARF (TICHEL / MITPAHAT)
France, dated 1886, signed Tanoux
A LEVANTINE MAIDEN WEARING A DESERT HEADSCARF (TICHEL / MITPAHAT)
France, dated 1886, signed Tanoux
Oil on canvas, the vertical-format bust portrait depicting a woman with a pensive expression, resting her head upon her hand, wearing a typical Middle Eastern desert headscarf (called Tichel or Mitpahat in the Jewish culture), a traditional attire in the Levant area, signed by Henri Adrian Tanoux (French, 1865 - 1923) and dated '86 (1886), an early work by the Marseillese painter, mounted and framed.
64cm x 51.5cm including the frame
Henri Adrian Tanoux (French, 1865 - 1923) was a French Orientalist painter who graduated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a student of Leon Bonnat (French, 1833 – 1922). Little is known of his biography, but his odalisque paintings reached a remarkable fame. The present lot seems to be an early work that predates his 1895 scholarship, which allowed him to travel and refine his Orientalist portraits.
Estimated at £3,000 - £5,000
A LEVANTINE MAIDEN WEARING A DESERT HEADSCARF (TICHEL / MITPAHAT)
France, dated 1886, signed Tanoux
Oil on canvas, the vertical-format bust portrait depicting a woman with a pensive expression, resting her head upon her hand, wearing a typical Middle Eastern desert headscarf (called Tichel or Mitpahat in the Jewish culture), a traditional attire in the Levant area, signed by Henri Adrian Tanoux (French, 1865 - 1923) and dated '86 (1886), an early work by the Marseillese painter, mounted and framed.
64cm x 51.5cm including the frame
Henri Adrian Tanoux (French, 1865 - 1923) was a French Orientalist painter who graduated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a student of Leon Bonnat (French, 1833 – 1922). Little is known of his biography, but his odalisque paintings reached a remarkable fame. The present lot seems to be an early work that predates his 1895 scholarship, which allowed him to travel and refine his Orientalist portraits.
Auction: Arts of India and the Islamic Lands, 19th Jun, 2025
Our specialist auction Arts of India and the Islamic Lands is now online for you to browse, peruse and fall in love with your next antique.
Among the highlights, this sale vaunts a remarkable selection of Rajput Schools paintings and an illustrated loose folio from a Timurid Haft Paykar series, all part of a private Canadian collection; several gem-studded Indian necklaces, treasured heirlooms of a local family; a notable group of Islamic manuscripts, including a geomantic tome attributed to the Nubian alchemist Dhul-Nun al-Misri; and several lots of Persian Qajar lacquer belonging to the heir of a British diplomatic family in office under Sir Denis Wright in Tehran between 1971 - 1973.
Our selected lots preview starts next week, on Tuesday 3rd June, and the full view is going to take place from Friday 13th June until the sale day.
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