Louis Comfort Tiffany
Algerian Shops
1866-1888
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor with brush and ink and red chalk on board, Sheet: 538 x 792 mm. (21 3/16 x 31 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number
1973.14
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1973; Hirschl and Adler Galleries, NY; Mrs. O'Connor Rogers (great-granddaughter of the artist)
BMA, "The Cult of Arabia: Romaniticism in the 19th Century," 31 October - 10 December 1972.
Hofstra University, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead, NY, "Late Nineteenth Century French Salon Painting," Oct. 17 - Dec. 15, 1974.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, "Louis C. Tiffany: Master of Glass," circulated to Musee du Luxembourg, September 16, 2009 - January 10, 2010; and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, February 11, 2010 - May 2, 2010.
BMA, American Wing Rotation, 14 November 2014 - 27 April 2015.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent," 23 February - 14 May, 2017.
Hofstra University, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hempstead, NY, "Late Nineteenth Century French Salon Painting," Oct. 17 - Dec. 15, 1974.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, "Louis C. Tiffany: Master of Glass," circulated to Musee du Luxembourg, September 16, 2009 - January 10, 2010; and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, February 11, 2010 - May 2, 2010.
BMA, American Wing Rotation, 14 November 2014 - 27 April 2015.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent," 23 February - 14 May, 2017.
The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, LC Tiffany, NY: 1915.
D. Dodge Thompson, "American Artists in North Africa and the Middle East, 1797-1914," Antiques (August 1984), fig. 5.
Sona Johnston. "American Paintings 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983) pp. 158-160, cat. no. 135, repr.
Rosalind M. Pepall, ed. "Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Colour" [catalogue for exhibition entitled "Louis C. Tiffany: Master of Glass"]. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Paris: Skira Flammarion, 2009, cat. 3, pp. 17 and 253, repr. color p. 19.
Foster, Kathleen A. American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017. p. 110, fig. 86.
Inscribed: lower left in red watercolor: "Louis C. Tiffany"
