Lot #12: C.1895 "BONDAGE" Very Rare Hand Coloured Etching By Ernest Normand Original Art Nouveau Gilt Wood Frame 31"

Sound clean intact Frame 31.5" x 22" Part 2 of a Great Estate sale of a long time Art Deco and Art Nouveau collector "Bondage" is a famous Orientalist painting by the British artist Ernest Normand, created in approximately 1895. The large oil on canvas depicts a scene of slave traders presenting a group of nude and semi-nude female slaves to a sultan or pharaoh in an ancient Egyptian or harem setting A century ago today, the artist Ernest Normand (1857-1923) died. For once, he has faded from the history of art in favour of the achievements of his wife, Henrietta Rae (1859–1928). Perhaps we should refer to him merely as Henrietta Rae’s husband? Normand trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he met Rae, a fellow student, who had fought her way into training there after applying at least five times. They married in 1884, but quite unconventionally for the day she chose to keep her maiden name. The couple set up studios in their house in Holland Park in London, then a focus for artists including Frederic, Lord Leighton, Sir John Everett Millais, Val Prinsep, and George Frederic Watts. In 1890, Rae and Normand went to Paris, where they studied at the Académie Julian, under Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin-Constant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Normand https://eclecticlight.co/2023/03/23/in-memoriam-ernest-normand-henrietta-raes-husband/ Dimensions: Frame 31.5" x 22" Pickup category timeslot {A}