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Frederick Arthur BRIDGMAN (1847-1928)

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Frederick Arthur BRIDGMAN (1847-1928)
Egyptian Girls Shaded by a Temple, ca. 1873
Oil on canvas
Signed and dedicated "To my friend/C[harles]
S[prague] Pearce/affectionate/souvenir/of/FA Bridgman" upper left
Oil on canvas| signed and dedicated "To my friend/C[harles] S[prague] Pearce/affectionate/ souvenir/of/FA Bridgman" upper left
33 x 24 cm - 13 x 9 1/2 in
PROVENANCE Sale, Me Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris,
Hôtel Drouot, 19 October 1987, lot 80
Private collection, France "Mr. Bridgman is an American artist, known in Paris for many years for his archaeological paintings, somewhat like those of Mr. Alma-Tadéma. For a time,
Mr. Bridgman's specialty, if memory serves, was Assyrian archaeology.
Today, here he is closer to us.
He has given up scholarly reconstructions for the picturesque and the living." "Deux expositions particulières," in Le Temps, March 28, 1889, n. p.