Lot 59: *CHARLES WILDA (AUSTRIAN, 1854-1907) The Palace Guard signed and dated 'CH. WILDA. PARIS 1884' (lowe

*CHARLES WILDA (AUSTRIAN, 1854-1907) The Palace Guard signed and dated 'CH. WILDA. PARIS 1884' (lower right) oil on panel 33.5 x 23.5cm (13 3/16 x 9 1/4in).

Provenance: Private collection, USA Born in Vienna, Charles Wilda studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he was tutored by the Orientalist Leopold Carl Müller (Austrian 1834– 1892). Wilda
Exhibited: in Vienna between 1887 and his death, in Vienna, in 1907. The Vienna Academy of the 1870s and 1880s produced a prodigious group of Orientalist painters: among Wilda's contemporaries were Jean Discart (French 1856-1944), Rudolf Ernst (Austrian 1854-1932) and Ludwig Deutsch (Austrian 1855-1935). Like his contemporaries, Wilda was drawn to Paris, working there in the early 1880s. He also produced a group of works painted in Cairo in the 1890s.