Carl Wuttke - View of the Mokattam Mountain near Cairo - image-1

Lot 2587 Dα

Carl Wuttke - View of the Mokattam Mountain near Cairo

Auction 1097 - overview Cologne
18.11.2017, 14:00 - 19th Century Art
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.600 €
Result: 1.860 € (incl. premium)

Carl Wuttke

View of the Mokattam Mountain near Cairo

Oil on card. 13.4 x 20.2 cm.
Framed under glass.
Signed lower left: C. Wuttke. Cairo..

Signed and inscribed additionally to verso: "C. Wuttke / 'Mokhattam' Cairo."
The silhoutte of the Mokattam plateau, which lies to the South East of Cairo, is here suggested in the background of this work. The mountain houses the oldest surviving domed graves of the Fatimid era.