# View of Ezbekiyah, Cairo

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MARILHAT, Prosper](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/marilhat-prosper-r8b380c284ca734>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Engraving

## Commentary

In 1834 the young French painter, Prosper Marilhat showed a view of Ezbekiyah Square, Cairo and three other Egyptian scenes at the Paris Salon. Like many of his generation, he had felt a restless urge to travel and had joined a scientific expedition led by an Austrian baron, Karl von Hugel, to the Near East. The artist was to die, insane, aged just thirty-six, and his Cairo scene survives only in a print.

## Related artworks

- [Ezbekiyah Street in Cairo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/marilhat-prosper-r8b380c284ca734/ezbekiyah-street-in-cairo-rdd79421398a467>)

## Attribution

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