Orientalist Sale

Sotheby's in London is holding an Orientalist Sale on 21 April. Among the 42 choice lots on offer is Ludwig Deutsch's The Palace Guard (1893). Note the date; he painted a different palace guard a few years later. These European painters who travelled what was then called the "Orient" - Turkey, the Levant, Middle East, North Africa and even Persia and India – fed their home countries with fascinating pictures of far-off lands. Their paintings are now being collected as historical documents of bygone eras (CLICK).