Oil; beveled oak board 13 x 18 cm; framed in an extremely ornate wooden frame; gallery sticker on the reverse:
"Country Fayre Art Gallery Restorers and Framers".
The Orientalist trend was an extremely popular direction in 19th-century European painting, in which many artists - both very well-known and less noted - created paintings depicting life, landscapes and travelers from the Middle East or North Africa.
