Category: Orientalists
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Léon Belly, GAZELLE HUNT IN EGYPT 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 67
Belly travelled to Egypt three times, in 1850, 1856, and 1857. The Gazelle Hunt was most likely worked up from sketches Belly made in 1856 during his excursion into the Sinai desert with fellow painters Narcisse Berchère and Jean-Léon Gérôme. More on this painting Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly (1827–1877) was a French landscape painter. He was born at…
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, STREET IN ALGERIA 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 66
Street in Algeria amply demonstrates Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s first-hand knowledge of North African life, and the proto-cinematic, highly finished compositions he painted at the height of his career. The work conveys a mood of quiet contemplation, as a rider takes a refreshing drink while conversing in the street, the woman next to him wearing a…
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, YOUNG WOMAN IN A WHITE TURBAN 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 65
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – 1928) was an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama. The son of a physician, Bridgman would become one of the United States’ most well-known and well-regarded painters and become known as one of the world’s most talented “Orientalist” painters. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for…
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Hassan El Glaoui; Fantasia 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 64
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
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Henri Emilien Rousseau; THE SULTAN FROM MOROCCO 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 63
Henri Rousseau Henry, Emilien Rousseau (Cairo 1875 – Aix-en-Provence in 1933) is an Orientalist painter. A pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Beaux Arts in Paris, he won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1900 and a travel grant at the Salon of French Artists. He traveled to Belgium, the Netherlands, North Africa, Spain and…
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DELACROIX EUGÈNE; Odaliske with feline 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 62
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the…
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Edouard Verschaffelt; A FAMILY SCENE IN KABYLIA 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, 61
Edouard Verschaffelt was a Belgian orientalist painter born in Ghent in 1874 and died in Bou Saâda in 1955. He was deeply rooted in Algeria. He produced paintings of the roots and passion of this Algerian reality, so abused by orientalist exoticism. Edouard Verschaffelt took a contrary view of academic, colonial Orientalism. A pupil of the Antwerp…
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Edouard Verschaffelt; Family scene, spinners 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 60
Edouard Verschaffelt was a Belgian orientalist painter born in Ghent in 1874 and died in Bou Saâda in 1955. He was deeply rooted in Algeria. He produced paintings of the roots and passion of this Algerian reality, so abused by orientalist exoticism. Edouard Verschaffelt took a contrary view of academic, colonial Orientalism. A pupil of the Antwerp…
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ORIENTALIST SCHOOL; LA CHEVAUCHÉE/THE CAVALCADE 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 59
A cavalcade is a procession or parade on horseback, or a mass trail ride by a company of riders. The focus of a cavalcade is participation rather than display. Often, the participants do not wear costumes or ride in formation. Often, a cavalcade re-enacts an important historical event and follows a long distance trail. A cavalcade…
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Louis-Théodore Devilly, THE SKIRMISH 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists , with footnotes, 57
Louis Theodore Devilly (born in Metz the 28 October 1818 and died in Nancy the 24 December 1886 ) was a French painter of the xix th century . Member of the School of Metz , he moved to Nancy in 1871 , after the annexation . He is the author of paintings of romantic inspiration,…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, LES CHAMELIERS/ THE CAMEL RIDERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 55
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and died the November 23 , 2014 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…
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LES JOUEURS DE DAMES/ CHECKERS PLAYERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artist Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, with footnotes, 56
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and dead the November 23 , 20141 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…
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Continental School, A rider approaching an oasis encampment 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 50
The Continental School, 19th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Orientalism is a term that is used for the depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern cultures. It refers to the works of the Western artists on Oriental subjects, produced…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, FANTASIA DANS LE SUD MAROCAIN 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 54
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, A MOUSSEM IN THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 53
The Tan-Tan Moussem is an annual gathering of more than thirty tribes from southern Morocco and other parts of Northwest Africa in Tan-Tan, a town in south-western Morocco. In traditional Berber culture, a moussem is “a type of annual fair with economic, cultural and social functions.” This Moussem was first held in 1963 to “promote local traditions…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, MOROCCAN RIDERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 52
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and dead the November 23 , 20141 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, BACK TO THE KSAR 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 51
Ksar, is the North African term for “Berber castle”, possibly loaned from Latin castrum. The term generally refers to a Berber fortified village. The counterpart of Maghrebi ksar in literary Arabic, qaṣr, means “castle” or “palace”. Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and dead the November 23 , 20141 is a French painter…
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C. Madou; Battle on Horseback 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 51
The Continental School, 19th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Orientalism is a term that is used for the depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern cultures. It refers to the works of the Western artists on Oriental subjects, produced…
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Pierre Gourdault, ARAB BATTLE SCENE 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 49
Pierre Gourdault ( Paris , May 18, 1880 – Givenchy-le-Noble , January 5, 1915 ) was a French painter. He was the son of Peter and Leonie Marie Gourdault Fonsse; and was the husband of the artist Marie Anastasie Martin Prudence, better known under her stage name Marie-Gourdault Martin. Gourdault was a student of Marcel-Andre Baschet…
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Eugène Delacroix; Combat of the Giaour and Hassan 02 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 48
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris “Giaour” is the Turkish word for infidel or non-believer, and is similar to the Arabic word “kafir”. The story is Byron’s only fragmentary narrative poem. The main story is of Leila, a member of her master Hassan’s harem, who loves the giaour and is killed…
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