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Joseph Lindon Smith (1863–1950) was an American painter whose career connected artistic practice with archaeological documentation. He studied drawing and painting at the school of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts between 1880 and 1882. Painted records of ancient murals and sculpture formed an important part of his activity, particularly in Egypt.
As a member of the Harvard–Boston Expedition at Giza, he recorded discoveries on the spot in watercolour. His Venetian Scene at the Metropolitan Museum depicts the Palazzo Dario on the Grand Canal and demonstrates his attention to architectural detail. In A Theater in Mukden, Manchuria, about 1910, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, he adopts the viewpoint of a balcony box. Interior architecture, spectators and actors’ costumes convey his interest in theatrical performance.
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Piguet
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Oil on canvas
Portrait d'homme au tarbouche
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2015-03-11
Published result : 220 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 500–800
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