01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 49

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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