27 Paintings from Émile‏ Henri Bernard’s ten year stay in Egypt, with footnotes

Émile‏ Henri Bernard
A Seated Oriental Beauty

Oil on canvas
39¾ x 38 in. (101 x 96.5 cm.)
Private collection

Bernard left France in 1893 and had lived abroad for ten years before returning to his native country. Intrigued by Orientalist works of the previous generations artists — Ingres, Delacroix, and others — he sought to create his own works depicting similarly scenes and characters…

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