28 December 2019

Jules Laurens. The Blue mosque of Tauris in Persia (‘La Mosquée bleue à Tauris en Perse’), 1872 (Musée Fabre, Montpellier).


Oil on canvas: 110 x 165 cm. From his three-year journey through the Middle East in the late 1840s. This work was painted almost 25 years after the journey, based on his meticulous drawings. 

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