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Lot 94*
A portrait of a Bukhara merchant, Mirza 'Abd al-Muluk Furad Baygi, wearing a ikat tunic by Maurice Feuillet (French, 1873-1968), dated 1900
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,024 inc. premium
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A portrait of a Bukhara merchant, Mirza 'Abd al-Muluk Furad Baygi, wearing a ikat tunic
by Maurice Feuillet (French, 1873-1968), dated 1900
by Maurice Feuillet (French, 1873-1968), dated 1900
crayon and watercolour on paper, identifying inscription in Persian at upper right, signed and dated 1900 upper right
493 x 345 mm.
493 x 345 mm.
Footnotes
The sitter has not been identified.
Feuillet was a journalist and international correspondent, which career was perhaps the source of this study. He also, for example, made sketches of Moroccans and Cypriots during travels in 1905. He was also made courtroom sketches, and followed in particular, in April and May 1894, the trial at the assizes of the anarchist Émile Henry, then the trials of Émile Zola in Paris in 1898 and the second trial of Alfred Dreyfus in Rennes, from August to September 1899, for the British illustrated magazine Black and White. He was created a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in 1929. He collected Japanese art and was a member of the Societe des Amis de l'art japonais.