Looting Saracen
Gabriel-Alexandre Decamps (Paris 1803 - Fontainebleau 1860), attr.
Lot-No. 38
Oil/canvas, 46,5 x 38 cm, relined, some rest. - French history a. landscape paitner, main exponent of Oriental Genre paintings a. one of the most praised artists of the 19th cent. D. was taught painting in the studio of A. de Pujol, in 1827 he exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon. In the late 1830 he associated with the painters of the Barbizon school. In 1839 he was made member of the Légion d'Honneur. At the peak of his career Delacroix named him a 'genius'. At the Paris World Fair in 1855 he exhibited together with Delacroix, Ingres a. H. Vernet.
Gabriel-Alexandre Decamps: Looting Saracen
Gabriel-Alexandre Decamps (Paris 1803 - Fontainebleau 1860), attr.
Looting Saracen
Lot-No. 38
Oil/canvas, 46,5 x 38 cm, relined, some rest. - French history a. landscape paitner, main exponent of Oriental Genre paintings a. one of the most praised artists of the 19th cent. D. was taught painting in the studio of A. de Pujol, in 1827 he exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon. In the late 1830 he associated with the painters of the Barbizon school. In 1839 he was made member of the Légion d'Honneur. At the peak of his career Delacroix named him a 'genius'. At the Paris World Fair in 1855 he exhibited together with Delacroix, Ingres a. H. Vernet.