Art 3783 - Driving a Bargain in Cairo

Serial Number: ART2336

Valuation:

Medium:
Oil on canvas

Type:
Figurative

Style:
Realism

Date:
Undated

Size:
60 x 80 cm

Artist:
Arthur von Ferraris was a Hungarian painter (1856–1928) known for his highly detailed Orientalist scenes depicting everyday life in North African and Middle Eastern cities, especially Cairo. He worked in a realistic, academic style, focusing on precise textures, rich color, and lively market and street compositions that often-emphasized trade, costume, and architecture.

Status: Display

Description:
Driving a Bargain, Cairo is an Orientalist painting set in a lively Cairo marketplace, showing a central negotiation between a seated merchant inside his elevated stall and a standing customer dressed in a white robe and turban. Around them, everyday street life continues with a man in red observing the exchange and a woman carrying a basket of fruit passing through the background. The scene is framed by richly detailed architecture with striped stone walls and shaded wooden awnings, and the artist emphasizes textures, fabrics, and warm lighting to create a vivid, atmospheric depiction of commerce and daily life in 19th-century Cairo.