Tag: Léon Belly
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11 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, #15
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 Italy…
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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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10 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, #15
Henri ROUSSEAU, 1875 – 1933 Les cavaliers – 1919 Huile sur panneau h: 46 w: 55 cm Private collection 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…
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