Tag: HUNT
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21 Works, October 24rd. is Eugène Fromentin’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #226
Exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1864, Windstorm on the Esparto Plains of the Sahara remains one of the most enduring and striking compositions in all Orientalist art. The five riders and their mounts are depicted near Laghouat on the fringe of the Sahara in Algeria, although the precise setting could hardly…
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Léon Belly, GAZELLE HUNT IN EGYPT 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 75
The proud stances of the camels and their riders, the fluttering robes, bright sun, and vivid colours combine to make this a work of true bravura, and bear testimony to Belly’s genius at capturing the stark light and desert winds of the Egyptian Sinai. Belly travelled to Egypt three times, in 1850, 1856, and 1857.…
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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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