Explore the History of this artwork, An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh.
Jerichau-Baumann painted An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh upon her return from her journey to Turkey, Greece and Egypt in 1874–1875. It was completed in Rome in 1878. The painting was possibly commissioned by Sultan Abdülaziz, but was still not completed by the time of his death in 1877. The painting was exhibited at the Charlottenborg Exhibition in 1879. It was for sale for DKK 3,500 but did not find a buyer. After her death, it was sold at an auction of her estate in 1883 for DKK 2,100 to Ida Marie Suhr. She later endowed both her estate Petersgaard and the painting to her nephew Jens Juel. After his death, the painting was sold by his widow Clara Iuel at a Bruun Rasmussen auction in 1977 for DKK 16,000 to Hamburg-based Ludwig Karl Erich Christian Detlev Alexander Graf zu Reventlow (1941–). On 27 November 1996, it was again put up for sale at a Bruun Rasmussen auction but failed to reach the minimum price of DKK one million. It was later sold at an unknown price to the actress and writer Birgit Pouplier. In 1996, she published the biographical novel Lisinka about Jerichau-Baumann. After her death, it was sold by her husband Knud Jerichau Nielsen to the National Gallery of Denmark in 2016.
Abdülaziz National Gallery of Denmark Ida Marie Suhr Jens Juel Rome Charlottenborg Exhibition Petersgaard DKK