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Continental School, C. Madou

Battle on Horseback

Oil on canvas

24 x 36 in.

Private collection

The Continental School, 19th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction.

Orientalism is a term that is used for the depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern cultures. It refers to the works of the Western artists on Oriental subjects, produced from their travels in Western Asia, during the 19th century. Depictions of Islamic "Moors" and "Turks" can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. A creative apprehension of a completely different world with its own laws, customs, special attitude towards life and death, love, feelings, and beauty. Wikipedia/Yana Naumovna Lukashevskaya

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Pierre Gourdault, (1880 - 1915)

ARAB BATTLE SCENE, 1913

Oil on canvas

31 1/2 x 45 1/2 in

Private collection

Pierre Gourdault ( Paris , May 18, 1880 - Givenchy-le-Noble , January 5, 1915 ) was a French painter. He was the son of Peter and Leonie Marie Gourdault Fonsse; and was the husband of the artist Marie Anastasie Martin Prudence, better known under her stage name Marie-Gourdault Martin.

Gourdault was a student of Marcel-Andre Baschet and Schommer at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His participation in the Spanish-French exhibition in Zaragoza in 1908 contributed to the strengthening of the economic ties between the two countries. He was a member of the French Artists from 25 years. 

On two occasions he was a pathologist for the Prix ​​de Rome . Burial in the Deux-Sèvres was noted in 1910. In 1912 he won the National Award Salon with Walk on the beach.

He traveled to Tunisia in 1905-06 and then moved there in 1912.  It is this period that he painted Caravan in Wadi Gafsa , Sidi-bou Olives Sahib or Arabian riders .

He died of the consequences of his injuries during the First World War , in the military hospital of Givenchy-le-Noble. He was hit by shrapnel on December 28, 1914. His comrades wanted to carry a stretcher, he refused. He died eight days later, on January 5, 1915.

A solo exhibition of his works was presented in 1913 at the Salon Tunisien.  On April 11-30, 1919, a posthumous exhibition of his works was held, in which the President of the Republic went to the portrait the artist made (self-portrait as a Zeaaf ) on the edge of the frame he stuck the cross of the Legion of Honor at the edge of the frame. The Croix de Guerre. More on Pierre Gourdault 

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02 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 48

Eugène Delacroix  (1798–1863)

Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, c. 1835

Oil on canvas, 

29 1/8 by 23 5/8 inches

Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

"Giaour" is the Turkish word for infidel or non-believer, and is similar to the Arabic word "kafir". The story is Byron's only fragmentary narrative poem. The main story is of Leila, a member of her master Hassan's harem, who loves the giaour and is killed by being drowned in the sea by Hassan. In revenge, the giaour kills him and then enters a monastery due to his remorse.

Byron was inspired to write the poem during his Grand Tour between 1810 and 1811. While in Athens, he became aware of the Turkish custom of throwing a woman found guilty of adultery into the sea wrapped in a sack. More on The Giaour

Eugène Delacroix  (1798–1863)

he Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, c. 1826

Oil on canvas

Height: 59.6 cm (23.4 ″); Width: 73.4 cm (28.8 ″)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime", of nature in often violent action.

However, Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible." MoreFerdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix

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Sir William Russell Flint R.A (1880-1969)

Holiday After Ramadan, c.  1965.

Signed,Limited Edition print of 850.

17.5" X 24"

Private collection

"Away from the center of the city the native swarms were worth watching. They were picturesque in the full meaning of the word, and after their fast, they were out to enjoy themselves, and enjoy themselves they did, ashore and afloat. Many took to the Nile and acted as unsecured ballast for the numerous top heavy sailing craft. My sketch book had never been kept busier." More on this work

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and the month in which the Quran was revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The month is spent by Muslims fasting during the daylight hours from dawn to sunset. According to Islam, the Quran was sent down to the lowest heaven during this month, thus being prepared for gradual revelation by Gabriel to Muhammad. Therefore, Muhammad told his followers that the gates of Heaven would be open for the entire month and the gates of Hell would be closed. The first day of the next month, Shawwal, is spent in celebration and is observed as the "Festival of Breaking Fast" or Eid al-Fitr. More on Ramadan

Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolour paintings of women. He also worked in oils, tempera, and printmaking. He was born in Edinburgh then educated at Daniel Stewart's College and Edinburgh Institution. From 1894 to 1900 Flint apprenticed as a lithographic draughtsman while taking classes at the Royal Institute of Art, Edinburgh. From 1900 to 1902 he worked as a medical illustrator in London while studying part-time at Heatherley's Art School. He furthered his art education by studying independently at the British Museum. 

Flint was elected president of Britain’s Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (now the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1936 to 1956, and knighted in 1947. More on Sir William Russell Flint

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