Eugene Fromentin (French, 1820-1876)

细节

Eugene Fromentin (French, 1820-1876)

Au Bord du Nil

signed 'Eug.- Fromentin.-' lower right and dated '-1875.-' lower left--oil on panel
19¾ x 26¼in. (50.2 x 66.7cm.)

来源

Brice Collection; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, January 1, 1948, lot 85
Raymond Abrams Collection; sale, Sotheby's, New York, June 15, 1979, lot 400

出版

J. Thompson and B. Wright, Les Orientalistes: Eugène Fromentin, Paris, 1987, p. 279 (illustrated)

拍品专文

This depiction is probably based on scenes of Egyptian life that Fromentin saw when he travelled there with Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1869. Fromentin spent most of his adult life travelling to the Near East painting and writing about the culture. The years 1846, 1848, and 1853 were chronicled by two diaries, Un Eté dans le Sahara, and Une Année dans le Sahel. His writings were as well-received as his paintings, and occasionally they inspired one another. The ending of Un Ete dans le Sahara was the basis for the 1869 Salon entry of Le Pay de la Soif (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) which was also an homage to Gèricault's The Raft of the Medusa.