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FROMENTIN, Eugène - b. 1820 La Rochelle, d. 1876 Saint-Maurice - WGA

FROMENTIN, Eugène

(b. 1820 La Rochelle, d. 1876 Saint-Maurice)

Eugène-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin, French painter, writer. and art historian. From 1843 he studied under landscape artist Louis Cabet and Oriental artist Prosper Marilhat. He produced primarily atmospheric Oriental landscapes, which were the fruits of three trips to North Africa between 1846 and 1853.

Though professionally a painter, he is famous for his one novel, Dominique, which has strongly autobiographical elements. Fromentin is also remembered for his illuminating essays on Dutch and Flemish painting, published in 1876 as Les Maîtres d’autrefois, at the time highly influential pieces of artistic literature that had considerable influence on later generations of artists.

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Arab Camp

This work is a variant of a painting by the artist, now in the Mus�e d’Orsay, Paris.

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Scene in the Desert

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The Land of Thirst
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The Land of Thirst

This picture shows a barren desert landscape in which we see a scattering of people, all approaching death. The sun is at its zenith, the shadows are short.

Fromentin, a prolific painter, borrowed the title for this desert picture from his book A Summer in the Sahara, written in 1857. It was based on his travels through Algeria.

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