Eugène Fromentin
Eugène Fromentin | |
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Born | |
Died | 27 August 1876 La Rochelle | (aged 55)
Nationality | French |
Education | Louis Cabat |
Known for | Painter, Author |
Movement | Orientalist |
Eugène Fromentin (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn fʁɔmɑ̃tɛ̃]; 24 October 1820 – 27 August 1876) was a French painter and writer,[1] now better remembered for his writings.
Life
He was born in
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.[2]
His books include Les Maîtres d'autrefois ("The Masters of Past Time", 1876), an influential appreciation of
Works
Among his more important works are:
- La Place de la Brèche[4] à Constantine (1849)
- Enterrement Maure (1853)
- Bateleurs nègres (1859)
- Audience chez un chalife (1859)
- Berger kabyle (1859)
- Courriers arabes (1861)
- Bivouac arabe (1863)
- Chasse au faucon (1863)
- Fauconnier arabe (now at Luxembourg) (1863)
- Chasse au héron (1865)
- Voleurs de nuit (1867)
- Centaures et arabes attaqués par une lionne (1868)
- Halte de muletiers (1869)
- Le Nil (1875)
- Un souvenir d'Esneh (1875)
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Hunting heron, Algeria, 1865
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Arabs, 1871
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Moroccan Horsemen at the Foot of the Chiffra Cliffs
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Un Souvenir d'Esneh, 1876
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Windstorm on the Esparto Plains of the Sahara, 1864
Fromentin, who maintained that "art is the expression of the invisible by means of the visible", was much influenced in style by Eugène Delacroix. His works are distinguished by striking composition, great dexterity of handling and brilliancy of colour. In them is given with great truth and refinement the unconscious grandeur of barbarian and animal attitudes and gestures. His later works, however, show signs of an exhausted vein and of an exhausted spirit, accompanied or caused by physical enfeeblement.[2]
But it must be observed that Fromentin's paintings show only one side of a genius that was perhaps even more felicitously expressed in literature, though with less profusion. Dominique, first published in the
Fromentin's other literary works are Visites artistiques (1852); Simples Pèlerinages (1856); Un été dans le Sahara (1857); Une année dans le Sahel (1858). In 1876 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Academy. He died suddenly at La Rochelle on 27 August 1876.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Speake, Jennifer, ed. (2003). Literature of Travels and Explorations. Vol. 1 A to F. New York: Taylor & Francis Books. pp. 471–472.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Eugene Fromentin as Critic – Meyer Schapiro, Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society, Selected Papers, George Braziller, New York, 1994.
- ^ "La poste – Constantine (Algérie)". www.engival.fr.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fromentin, Eugène". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 246–247. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
Media related to Eugène Fromentin at Wikimedia Commons
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Works by Eugène Fromentin at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Eugène Fromentin at Internet Archive
- www.eugenefromentin.org Works by Eugène Fromentin