About This Artwork

Alberto Pasini
Italian, 1826-1899

Circassian Cavalry Awaiting their Commanding Officer at the Door of a Byzantine Monument; Memory of the Orient, 1880

Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (64.7 x 54.6 cm)
George F. Harding Collection, 2003.48

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Salon nationale des beaux-arts, 1880, cat. 2887.

Publication History

Cardoso, Vittoria Botteri, Pasini (Genova, 1991), no. 696.

Ownership History

George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; transferred to the Art institute, 1984, accessioned into the Collection, 2003.