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Gaston Roullet 1847-1925

Name: Gaston Roullet 1847-1925
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: RSEJN658BK
Price: 2400 EUR
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2.400 €

Period 19th century

Style Orientaliste

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Gaston Roullet 1847-1925
The Sliding Stone, Sidi Fathallah near Tunis, circa 1889-1890.
3rd Studio Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Saturday, December 4, 1926, catalog number 6.
Panel dimensions: H 27 x W 35 cm
Frame dimensions: H 34 x W 42 cm
Explanation of the subject depicted: There are other marabouts in favor in Tunis besides Sidi-Fathallah, "God Opens the Gates of Happiness." This is the one we had planned to visit. His specialty, and this is undoubtedly why he took the name "God Opens the Gates of Happiness," is to make barren women fertile.

The apparent means of achieving this is rather strange. A hundred paces from the small village where he lives, there is a rock with a sloping incline. This rock is approximately sixty feet high. Women who wish to obtain God's favor of becoming fertile slide down the rock twenty-five times: five times on their stomachs, five times on their backs, five times on their left side, five times on their right side, and five times upside down. After completing this ritual, the women spend an hour in prayer with the marabout, and if they are young and beautiful, it is rare that the spell is not broken and they do not return home pregnant.

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Additional Information

Condition	Very good
Style	Orientaliste (Orientalist paintings of Orientaliste Style)
Period	19th century (Orientalist paintings 19th century)
Country of origin	Tunisia
Artist	Gaston Roullet 1847-1925
Width (cm)	35
Height (cm)	27
Materials	Oil on wood