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CESARE BISEO (Rome 1843 - 1909) SKETCH OF A MIDDLE EASTERN TOWN
Black chalk, washed in black and brown ink; 143 x 205 mm.

A painter and an illustrator, Cesare Biseo, pupil of his father Gian Battista, specialized in orientalist painting. He worked in Alexandria, Egypt, decorating several public buildings and illustrated the books by Edmondo De Amicis 'Marocco' (1879) and 'Costantinopoli' (1882).