Opening: $50 Hammer Price: $130 SOLD Skylight Gallery 27 October 2008

CDV-format albumen print of a Cairo rug seller by Hippolyte Delié, circa 1865. Imprinted front "H. Delié & Cie. Phot." and on reverse "Photographie Universelle / H. Delié & Cie. Caire (Egypte) / succursale de la maison Pierson / Photographe de L'Emperor / Boulevart des Capucines, 3, Paris."   ( Inventory# ib930.05 )

Middle-eastern rug merchants are proverbial for their wily ways. This foreboding, almost creepy-looking rug seller does not look like any exception to the rule.

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Hippolyte Delié

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