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Orientalist oil on canvas depicting a view of the Bosphorus with the city of Istanbul / Constantinople and the St. Sophia Mosque in the background, with men seated at the water's edge and others rowing in a long boat, signed Bachmann *, in a gilded wood frame, vintage late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This table is in very good condition and is of an excellent quality. It is signed lower left.
A note: tiny small slots and wear on the frame, see photos.
Swiss orientalist painter. He exhibited at the Salon des Independants in 1909. (extract Bénézit)
Artist very well on ArtPrice side
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The Bosphorus is the strait that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of ??Marmara and marks, with the Dardanelles, the southern limit between the Asian and European continents. It is 42 kilometers long and 698 to 3,000 meters wide.
The Hagia Sophia is an old Christian church of Constantinople of the sixth century, which became a mosque in the fifteenth century under the leadership of Sultan Mehmed II. It is built on the historical peninsula of Istanbul.
