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Victor Huguet, 1835 - 1902
MARKET IN THE DESERT
Oil on canvas
66 by 86.5cm., 26 by 34in.
Private Collection
While Huguet’s desert scenes typically depict riders advancing through the landscape, or pausing briefly for a drink at a wadi, this particularly atmospheric, impressionistic example evokes the bustle of a gathered crowd. Clothed in burnous of varying designs and colours for protection from the harsh environment, in the foreground the figures are surrounded by a range of wares, from horse saddles, rugs and ceramics to livestock such as the trio of goats to the left.
Victor Pierre Huguet , born Lude the 1 st May
1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French,
landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and
received advice from Fromentin in Paris.
In 1852,
aged 17, he traveled to Egypt, then to Crimea where he accompanied
Durand-Brager before the siege of Sebastopol. He was profoundly influenced
by the landscapes he passes through and that will influence his inspiration to
Orientalism, where he soon made a name. Discovering Algeria a few years
later, he drew from many sources of inspiration.
He exhibited at the Salons de Marseille and Paris in 1859
and the Salon of French Orientalist Painters at its inception in 1893. He
was the leading Orientalist artists of Provence. More Victor
Pierre Huguet
Alberto Pasini, 1826 - 1899, ITALIAN
THE ROUT, c. 1884 lower right
Oil on canvas
82 by 121cm., 32¼ by 47¾in
Private Collection
Alberto Pasini (Busseto, 3 September 1826 – Cavoretto,
15 December 1899) was an Italian painter. He was enrolled at the
age of 17 years, in the Academy of Fine Art of Parma, studying landscape
painting and drawing. In Parma, he was helped early on by Antonio Pasini, who
painted for the local nobility and collaborated with the publishing house
established by Giovanni Battista Bodoni. By 1852, he exhibited a series of
thirty designs, made into lithographs, depicting various castles around
Piacenza, Lunigiana and Parma. He was noticed by the artist Paolo Toschi, who
encouraged Pasini to travel to Paris, where Pasini first joined the workshop of
Charles and Eugène Ciceri, of the so-called School of Barbizon.
Alberto Pasini, 1826 - 1899, ITALIAN
THE ROUT, c. 1884 lower right
Detail
In 1853
his lithograph of The Evening gained him admittance to the Paris Salon, and to
the workshop of the famous Théodore Chassériau. The eruption of the Crimean War
offered a new opportunity, when in February 1855, this latter painter
recommended Pasini to replace him on the entourage of the French
plenipotentiary minister Nicolas Prosper Bourée to Persia. Pasini accompanied
him, returning through the north of Persia and Armenia before reaching the port
of Trebizond. In subsequent trips, he visited Egypt, the Red Sea, Arabia,
Istanbul, and Persia. Pasini parlayed his exposures during this trip into
numerous highly detailed paintings of orientalist subjects. He left again for
Istanbul in October 1867, summoned by the French Ambassador Bourée. He returned
to Turkey in 1876 to execute the four paintings commissioned by Sultan Abdul
Aziz. He was about to return to Istanbul the next year, when his patron, the
Sultan, died.
In 1865, he spent some time in Cannes, painted landscapes
of the Riviera. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he returned to Italy,
settling in Cavoretto, on the hills around Turin. He continued to travel,
closer to his home, with trips to Venice and two sojourns in Spain in 1879 and
1883. More Alberto
Pasini
Eugen Bracht, 1842-1921, SWISS
REST IN THE SYRIAN DESERT, c. 1883
Oil on canvas
65 by 125cm., 25½ by 49¼in.
Private Collection
In this atmospheric work, a group of journeying men make a halt in the desert against the backdrop of a range of barren hills. The figure standing by his camel holds a spear, while his companions lie or sit in a circle talking. With great mastery, Bracht evokes the utter stillness and loneliness of the desert air. The broad viewpoint and photographic illusionism in the painting no doubt owe something to Bracht's work as a panorama painter in the early 1880s, notably on the landscape sections for the Sedan Panorama, commissioned to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War. More REST IN THE SYRIAN DESERT
Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht, (1842–1921)
"Memory of Gizeh", c. 1883
Oil on wood
15.5 x 21.5 cm
Private Collection
He was known for landscapes and coastal scenes in North Germany, and in 1880 and 1881, he made a sketching trip through Syria, Palestine and Egypt. In 1882 he became a Professor of Landscape Painting at the Prussian Academy of Arts. In 1885 he painted the Battle of Chattanooga for the "Philadelphia Panorama Company", a cyclorama which was installed in Philadelphia and Kansas City.
Bracht was supported by Anton von Werner, the conservative director of the Berlin Academy, but broke off with him during the affair of the closure of Edvard Munch's Berlin exhibition in 1892.
When von Werner died, Bracht finished a panorama of the Battle of Sedan which Werner had begun. Later he became a representative of German Impressionism.
In 1901 he obtained a teaching position at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts that he held until 1919. After his retirement he lived in Darmstadt, where he died in 1921. More Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht
Giulio Rosati, 1858 - 1917, ITALIAN
THE DANCE
Oil on canvas
52.5 by 82cm., 20¾ by 32¼in.
Private Collection
The wealth of intricate details, luxurious fabrics and the lyrical composition of The Dance showcase Rosati's exceptional skill at combining ethnographic accuracy with spontaneous brushstrokes. The artist's profound passion for the Orient is evident as much through the fascinating array of objects, materials and architecture as the varied characters and personalities he has chosen as his cast. Despite the conviction with which Rosati rendered his scene, the artist's journeys to the Middle East were purely metaphorical - he never visited the region instead relying on photographic evidence and souvenirs for his inspiration.
Giulio Rosati, 1858 - Rome - 1917, specialised in eighteenth century costume pieces, comical scenes of from the life of the clergy and Orientalist subjects. His preferred medium was watercolour, though he also worked in oils.
Rosati studied at the Academy of Rome. He was the pupil of several eminent artists, in particular the poet and architect Francesco Podesti (1800-1895) and Dario Querci (born 1831), a portrait and history painter from Messina. He also studied with Luis Alvarez y Catala (1836-1901), director of the Prado Museum, Madrid.
Giulio Rosati, (Italian, 1858-1917)
Bedouins preparing a raiding party, c. 1895
Watercolour on paper
29¾ x 21 in. (75.5 x 54 cm.)
Private Collection
Rosati was one of a large group of Italian Orientalist painters working in Rome at the end of the nineteenth century. These artists emulated Mariano Fortuny y Marsal in his skilful rendering of detail and bright colouring. This manner was particularly popular with American and British collectors, many of whom purchased these images as a memento of their travels in the Near East, a voyage very much in vogue at the end of the last century.
Guilio Rosati had a son Alberto who also became an artist. His manner is very much indebted to his father, but he was not so prolific. More Giulio Rosati
Adolf Schreyer, 1828 - 1899, GERMAN
HORSEMEN AT A WATERING HOLE
Oil on canvas
67 by 87.5cm., 26¼ by 34½in.
Private Collection
Adolf Schreyer (July 9, 1828
Frankfurt-am-Main – July 29, 1899 Kronberg im Taunus) was a German
painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He studied art, first at the Städel Institute in his native town,
and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his favourite subjects in
his travels in the East. He first accompanied Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of
Thurn and Taxis through Hungary, Wallachia, Russia and Turkey; then, in 1854,
he followed the Austrian army across the Wallachian frontier. In 1856 he went
to Egypt and Syria, and in 1861 to Algiers. In 1862 he settled in Paris, but
returned to Germany in 1870; and settled at Cronberg near Frankfurt, where he
died.
Schreyer was, and is still, especially esteemed
as a painter of horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of
battle incidents. His work is remarkable for its excellent equine
draughtsmanship, and for the artist's power of observation and forceful
statement; and has found particular favour among French and American
collectors. Of his battle-pictures there are two at the Schwerin Gallery, and
others in the collection of Count Mensdorff-Pouilly and in the Raven Gallery,
Berlin. More
Rudolf Ernst, 1854-1932, AUSTRIAN
THE PERFUME MAKERS
Oil on panel
55.5 by 45cm., 22 by 17¾in
Private Collection
The Perfume Makers is an evocation of perfect feminine conviviality and complicity. Two young women are seen working in harmony together; as one girl enters the room carrying a basket of roses, her companion plucks the petals and places them in the urn by her side, ready for crushing to extract their aromatic essence. While the scene is one of tranquility and modesty, the luxuriant and plentiful petals whose scent is almost palpable, the azur blue sky and distant sun-drenched seashore glimpsed through the doorway, the colourful tiles, and the eastern copper and earthenware lend the painting an unspoken sensuality and exotic atmosphere.
Despite their ethnographic detail, depictions of middle-eastern women like this are ultimately constructs of the artist's imagination, since Westerners would have been prohibited by local custom from observing many of the places and customs they painted. More The Perfume Makers
Rudolf Ernst (14 February 1854, Vienna - 1932, Fontenay-aux-Roses) was an Austro-French painter, printmaker and ceramics painter who is best known for his orientalist motifs. He exhibited in Paris under the name "Rodolphe Ernst".
He was the son of an architect and, encouraged by his father, began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at the age of fifteen. He spent some time in Rome, copying the old masters, and continued his lessons in Vienna with August Eisenmenger and Anselm Feuerbach.
In 1876, he settled in Paris. The following year, he participated in his first artists' salon. He later made trips to Spain, Morocco, Egypt and Constantinople to study and document what he saw there.
In 1905, he moved to Fontenay-aux-Roses where he set up a shop to produce faience tiles with orientalist themes. He decorated his home in Ottoman style and lived a reclusive life. His exact date of death was apparently not recorded. More Rudolf Ernst
Alphonse Etienne Dinet (français, 1861 - 1929)
(UNKNOWN) THE PERFUME MAKER
Oil on canvas
65 x 81 cm. (25.6 x 31.9 in.)
Private Collection
Nasreddine Dinet (born as Alphonse-Étienne Dinet on 28
March 1861 – 24 December 1929, Paris) was a French orientalist painter.
From 1871, he studied at the Lycée Henry IV, where the future president
Alexandre Millerand was also among the students. Upon graduation in 1881 he
enrolled in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and entered the
studio of Victor Galland. The following year he studied under William
Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian. He also exhibited for
the first time at the Salon des artistes français.
Dinet
made his first trip to Bou Saâda by the Ouled Naïl Range in southern Algeria in
1884, with a team of entomologists. The following year he made a second trip on
a government scholarship, this time to Laghouat.[1] At that time he painted his
first two Algerian pictures: les Terrasses de Laghouat and l’Oued M’Sila après
l’orage.
He
won the silver medal for painting at the Exposition Universelle in 1889, and in
the same year founded the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts along with
Meissonier, Puvis de Chavannes, Rodin, Carolus-Duran and Charles Cottet. In
1887 he further founded with Léonce Bénédite, director of the Musée du
Luxembourg, the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français.
In 1903 he bought a house in Bou Saâda and spent
three quarters of each year there. He announced his conversion to Islam in a
private letter of 1908, and completed his formal conversion in 1913, upon which
he changed his name to Nasr’Eddine Dinet. In 1929 he and his wife undertook the
Hajj to Mecca. The respect he earned from the natives of Algeria was reflected
by the 5,000 who attended his funeral on 12 January 1930 in Bou Saâda. There he
was eulogized by the former Governor General of Algeria Maurice Viollette. More Nasreddine Dinet
Georges Washington, 1827 - 1910, FRENCH
CAVALIERS ARABES
oil on canvas
66 by 92.5cm., 26 by 36½in
Private Collection
George Washington, born 15 September 1827 in Marseille
and died November 19, 1901 in Douarnenez, was a French Orientalist
painter. Like most aspiring artists, the young Georges Washington moved to
Paris, where he trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under François-Edouard
Picot (1786-1868). The artist’s exotic style was also indebted to Eugène Delacroix
(1798-1863). Washington’s art conveys a similar feeling to the work of Eugène
Fromentin (1820-76) who often painted naturalistic Middle Eastern scenes of
rural and nomadic life. Washington’s love of the Middle East and its customs
was further enhanced and encouraged by his father-in-law, the military and
Orientalist painter Henri-Félix-Emmanuel Philippoteaux (1815-1884), whose
daughter Anne-Léonie Philippoteaux married Washington in Paris on 6th August
1859.
Georges Washington, 1827 - 1910, FRENCH
CAVALIERS ARABES
dETAIL
Not long
after finishing his training at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Washington embarked
on the first of a number of trips to Algeria and based on close observation of
its inhabitants, their dress and customs in 1857 he made his Paris debut at the
Salon des Artistes Français with a view of nomads titled Plaine du Hoiina
(Sahara Algérien). From then up until 1901 Washington continued to be a popular
exhibitor at the Salon; one of his first works shown there to gain critical
acclaim was Nomades dans le Sahara en Hiver. In addition to Paris, Washington
also showed his work in Moscow in 1881 and was later posthumously honoured when
four of his paintings were included in the Exposition Coloniale de Marseille in
1906.
Following
two commissions from a Belgian company, he travelled to Morocco and then
subsequently visited Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, which were to inspire his
varied subjects including battle scenes and cavalry skirmishes. His travels
also took him to America for the unveiling in Philadelphia of a cyclorama (a
monumental 360° panoramic view) of the Battle of Gettysburg by his
brother-in-law Paul-Dominique Philippoteaux (1846-1923).
Following the death of his wife he retired to live with his
daughter and son-in-law at Douarnenez on the Brittany coast, where he died
shortly after on 19th November 1901. More
George Washington
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