Paul Leroy
Paul Leroy | |
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Born | Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy 1860 Paris, France |
Died | 1942 1860 (aged -83–-82) |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Painting, Lithography |
Movement | Orientalist |
Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy (1860 in Paris – 1942) was a French painter noted for Orientalist works. He was a founding member of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français (Society for French Orientalist Painters) and designed the Society's first logo.
Life and career
French by birth, Leroy spent his childhood in
At Beaux Artes, he met Georges Landelle (1860-1898), an Orientalist painter and the pair became life-long friends. In 1885 he visited Turkey and Egypt, with Landelle and Landelle's father. In 1886 journeyed to Tunisia and Algeria, returning to the country's southern region several times during the 1880s and 1890s. During this period, Leroy studied the Arabic language, which enabled him to use the Arabic script effectively in a number of paintings and lithographs.[2]
In 1893, Leroy, along with artists,
Work
During his career, LeRoy painted both Orientalist scenes and religious paintings. He worked in oil, watercolours and also made lithographs.
Leroy's Portrait de sa mere is a parody of
Select list of paintings
- A Harem Beauty n.d.
- The Harem Dance n.d.
- Inside the Harem n.d.
- A Kabyle Student, 1892
- The Girls of Atlas, 1901
- The Musicians
- Musical Interlude
- Woman Embrodering
- An Oasis in the Sahara
- Martyr d'Amour
- Porttrait of a Young Girl
- Young Women at the Cemetery
- Weaver in Biskra, Algeria
Gallery
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A Young Arab Guide
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A Blind Arab
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Playing Bones 1898
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Haman and Mordecai, 1884
See also
References
- ^ Les Peintres Orientalistes (1850-1914), Musée des beaux-arts, Pau (France). Musée des beaux-arts, Musée de Dunkerque - 1983 "Paul LEROY. (Paris 1860- 1942) Elève de Cabanel aux Beaux-Arts, dès son premier envoi au Salon en 1882 il obtient une médaille. Son enfance à Odessa lui avait donné le goût de l'Orient et, grâce à une bourse de voyage, il passe deux ..."
- ^ Benjamin, R., Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930, University of California Press, 2003, p.73
- ^ Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila Blair, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, Volume 2, 2009, p.5
- ^ Benjamin, R., Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930,University of California Press, 2003, pp 73-74
- ^ Corsano, K. and Williman, D., John Singer Sargent and His Muse: Painting Love and Loss, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, p. 16