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28. The Snake DRESSER

Artist: Eugène PAVY, French, (1850 - 1905)
Execution date (approximate): 1885
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lower right and dated)
Measures: 99 x 144 cm.
Description: A Young lady looking at the dresser who is feeding the snake; The snake
dresser is entertaining the Favorite in the Harem.

Provenance:
The Forbes Collection.

Exhibitions
Austria, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems-Stein, 14.08.2005 – 13.11.2005. “Harem Des Orient.”
Royal Academy of Arts in London, in 1878, 1879, 1881, 1883

Publications
Harem Des Orients, p.75.
Royal Academy of Arts in London, in 1878, 1879, 1881, 1883, Dictionary of Contributors and
their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904,Vol. VI, p.82.

Biography
Eugène PAVY, was the brother of Philippe Pavy, with whom he travelled to Tunisia, Algeria,
Morocco, and perhaps Egypt, in the 1870s and 1880s. He exhibited his paintings of Street
merchants, armed sentries, palace guards and souks in both Paris and London, where
he lived for a time. In London, from 1879 to 1884, he and his brother rented studios in
Langham Chambers, just off Portland Place, a building which housed other artists as well
as the Artists Society. Pavy sent two Orientalist paintings to the Royal Academy, whilst
eight works were shown at the Royal Society of British Artist and at the Grosvenor Gallery.
Three others, acquired in 1898, are at the Glasgow Art Gallery.

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