CAMILLE ROGIER (1810-1896) "MEAL" "WOMEN DINING" Lithographed... Lot 21

CAMILLE ROGIER (1810-1896) "MEAL" "WOMEN DINING" Lithographed plate, printed by Lemercier in Paris, titled in French, Arabic and English, part of the series entitled 'La Turquie' published in Paris in 1846-48. DIM. (VIEW) 45.5 X 31.5 CM (17 15/16 X 12 3/8 IN.) NOTE Camille ROGIER, illustrator of Romantic novels (V. Hugo - E. Hoffman - Boccaccio) led a literary and artistic group with Gérard de Nerval, Arsène Houssaye and Théophile Gautier. After wandering through Rome, Florence and Venice, he landed in Constantinople in 1840, where he quickly became initiated into Oriental life and became fashionable in the European colony for his watercolors, notably the Turkish costumes in the Galerie Royale des Costumes. In 1843, he was joined by Nerval, who had just arrived from Beirut. In 1848, he returned to Beirut. There, the small group reformed with Maxime du Camp. Flaubert wrote in his letters of 1850 that he had met Rogier "one of the Gautier clique who lives there orientalizing". Rogier returned to France for good in 1864.