Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and inscribed (lower right): TH. FRERE. / JÉRUSALEM. TERRE SAINTE. (Holy Land)
Gallery Label Frère began his career painting French landscape scenes, but after a stay in Algeria in 1837, he exhibited only scenes and landscapes of North Africa and the Middle East. In 1861 he made his final visit to the eastern Mediterranean, traveling in the party of the Empress Eugénie. It is thought that Frère exhibited this painting at the Salon of 1881 as "View of Jerusalem from the Valley of the Jehoshaphat."
Provenance Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York (until d. 1887)
Exhibition History Paris. Salon. May 2–?, 1881, no. 925bis.
Phoenix Art Museum. "Aspects of the Desert: The Dedication of the Phoenix Art Museum," November 14, 1959–January 31, 1960, no. 27.
Hempstead, N.Y. Emily Lowe Gallery. "Art Pompier: Anti-Impressionism, 19th Century French Salon Painting," October 22–December 15, 1974, no. 42.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse: European Painters in North Africa and the Near East," March 24–May 27, 1984, no. 23.
Washington. National Gallery of Art. "The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse: The Allure of North Africa and the Near East," July 1–October 28, 1984, no. 23.
References Catalogue of the Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 1898, p. 152, no. 496.French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 2, New York, 1966, p. 146, ill.New York Times (November 3, 1974), p. 134.Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting 1800–1880 . Exh. cat., Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, N.Y., 1982, pp. 104, 121, fig. 104.in The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, The Allure of North Africa and the Near East . Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London. New York, 1984, p. 133, no. 23, ill.
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