Raphael von Ambros, 1845-1895, AUSTRIAN
THE TOBACCO SELLER, CAIRO, c. 1891
Oil on panel
75 by 62cm., 29½ by 24¼in.
Private collection
Von Ambros depicts a busy tobacco stall outside a coffee shop in the streets of Cairo. On the left, two young men roll cigarettes which have been neatly hung by the merchant on his stall. On the right, a customer samples a cigarette, pondering a purchase. Above the stall on a shelf stand five glass narghile, or hookah vessels. Water pipes were an alternative method of tobacco consumption introduced to the Middle east and Europe from India. More on this painting
Born in Prague, Raphael
von Ambros was a pupil of Hans
Makart (1840-1884) at the famous Vienna Academy, where he would have studied
alongside an extraordinary generation of Orientalist painters such as Jean
Discart (French, 1856-1944), Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935) and Rudolf Ernst (1854-1932).
Like his contemporaries, Ambros found the perfect audience for his Cairo street
scenes at the Paris Salon, where he exhibited from 1887. More on Raphael von Ambros
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