Bedouin Camp, Afterglow
Theodore Frère Paris 1814 - Paris 1888, attr.
Lot-No. 431
Oil/wood, 11,5 x 22 cm, lo. le. monogr. Th. F. - French landscape a. orient painter, brother of Pierre Edouard F., pupil of J. Coignet a. C. Roqueplan. He first travelled France a. Algeria, later he travelled extensively Turkey a. the Middle East. Together with J.-L. Gerome a. other artists he accompanied the empress Eugénie when she took part in the opening of the Suez canal. Since 1839 he painted exclusively oriental subjects. - Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Paris, London a. others. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
Theodore Frère: Bedouin Camp, Afterglow
Theodore Frère Paris 1814 - Paris 1888, attr.
Bedouin Camp, Afterglow
Lot-No. 431
Oil/wood, 11,5 x 22 cm, lo. le. monogr. Th. F. - French landscape a. orient painter, brother of Pierre Edouard F., pupil of J. Coignet a. C. Roqueplan. He first travelled France a. Algeria, later he travelled extensively Turkey a. the Middle East. Together with J.-L. Gerome a. other artists he accompanied the empress Eugénie when she took part in the opening of the Suez canal. Since 1839 he painted exclusively oriental subjects. - Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Paris, London a. others. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.