Lot 153: Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Gibert (French, 1803-1889)

A Street in Old Cairo
oil on paper laid down on canvas
9 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (24.8 x 31.8 cm.)

Paris, Emmanuel Moatti, Jean Baptiste Gibert 1803-1883, October-November 2001, no. 50.

Collection of the artist and thence by descent to the artist's family. with Emmanuel Moatti, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late John R. Gaines.

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOHN R. GAINES

This wonderful oil sketch of a light-filled city street in Cairo documents the artist's journey to Egypt in 1839. A particularly beautiful en plein air effect is rendered by the strong contrasts of light and shade that play upon the walls and into the alleyways.