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Eugene Fromentin

Eugene Fromentin Hawking in Algeria oil painting on canvas
Hawking in Algeria
Painting ID::  40068
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Eugene Fromentin Hawking in Algeria oil painting on canvas



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  Eugene Fromentin
  1820-1876 He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life. In 1849 he obtained a medal of the second class. In 1852 he paid a second visit to Algeria, accompanying an archaeological mission, and then completed that minute study of the scenery of the country and of the habits of its people which enabled him to give to his after-work the realistic accuracy that comes from intimate knowledge. In a certain sense his works are contributions to ethnological science as much as they are works of art.
  Hawking in Algeria
  mk155 1863 Oil on canvas 162.5x117.8cm

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