The two-figure group of a mature lady seated frontally with peacock feather fan and looking off to her right, she wears a traditional north African red-striped kaftan and veil, a man standing behind her left shoulder, rendered in profile and wearing a turban and kaftan, holding a pipe to his mouth, a terracotta mask lamp on a trunk to the rear left, a pigeon at the lower right and a small rug on the floor.                                             

Mariano Garcia Mass, Valencia, Spain, (1858-1911)

Signed and dated upper right ‘Mariano Garcia Roma 82’.   

Height: 73 cm Width: 60 cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Rome.

The two-figure group of a mature lady seated frontally with peacock feather fan and looking off to her right, she wears a traditional north African red-striped kaftan and veil, a man standing behind her left shoulder, rendered in profile and wearing a turban and kaftan, holding a pipe to his mouth, a terracotta mask lamp on a trunk to the rear left, a pigeon at the lower right and a small rug on the floor.                                             

Mariano Garcia Mass, Valencia, Spain, (1858-1911)

Signed and dated upper right ‘Mariano Garcia Roma 82’.   

Height: 73 cm Width: 60 cm

Provenance: Private Collection, Rome.