02 Paintings by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #96

Rachid Talbi

Fantasia marocaine, Benimellal/ Moroccan fantasia, Benimellal, c. 2019

Watercolour

54 x 73 x 1 cm

Private collection

Beni Mellal is a Moroccan city located in the country's interior. It is the capital of the Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region. It sits at the foot of Jbel Tassemit, and next to the plains of Beni Amir. The walls of the city go back to Moulay Ismail, in 1688. More on Beni Mellal

Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. "Fantasia" is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud.

The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same speed so as to form a line, and then at the end of the charge (about two hundred meters) fire into the sky using old muskets or muzzle-loading rifles The difficulty of the performance is in synchronizing the movement of the horses during acceleration of the charge, and especially in firing the guns simultaneously so that one single shot is heard. The horse is referred to as a fantasia horse and are of Arabian, Andalusian or Barb stock. More on Fantasia

Rachid Talbi

Fantasia in Mascara, c. 2018

Watercolour

45 x 75 x 2 cm

Private collection

Mascara, is a town, northwestern Algeria, situated about 40 miles (60 km) south of the Mediterranean Sea coast. Spread across two hills separated by the Wadi Toudman, it lies on the southern slope of the Beni Chougran Range of the Atlas Mountains. Mascara (“Mother of Soldiers”) was founded as a Turkish military garrison in 1701. In about 1790 the town was abandoned by the Spanish Muslims (Moors) who had settled there and was returned to the Turks, who settled a Jewish community there. In 1832 Abdelkader, an Algerian patriot who was born in the vicinity, chose Mascara as his headquarters. The town was reduced to ruins by the French in 1835. More on Mascara

Rachid Talbi was born on October 29, 1967 in Beni Mellal - Morocco. He lives in Oran - Algeria.

Graduated in 1992 following higher studies at the University of Es-Senia in Oran, in the Microbiology sector. He is a self-taught artist and a member of the National Union of Cultural Arts.

After his university studies, Rachid Talbi chooses to make his gift for painting, his profession. In the 2000s, his artistic career took a flourishing turn when he became a permanent artist at the Dar El Kenz gallery in Algiers. Endowed with a very rich artistic activity, he takes part in events related to painting in the Museums, galleries and cultural places of several cities of Algeria.

He exhibits regularly at the Maghreb fair in Paris. Some of his paintings were acquired by the Embassies of France, Venezuala and the United States in Algiers as well as by the Presidency of the Algerian Republic and the City of Paris. In 2009, he received a letter of recognition from his Majesty the King of Morocco, Rachid TALBI having offered him a canvas during the Feast of the Throne.

Rachid Talbi is a contemporary figurative painter who uses all techniques to express his art: oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, charcoal and pencil. From its bright and colorful touch flow scenes from everyday life, portraits, fantasias, marines, still lifes ...

His painting leaves no one indifferent and his notoriety is real in Algeria and Morocco. His talent explodes on social networks where he appears among the greatest contemporary painters of the Maghreb. More on Rachid Talbi

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01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #77

Clemente Pujol de Gustavinon, Spanish, 1850 - 1905

THE FORTUNE TELLER

Oil on panel 

36¼ by 28 in., 92.1 by 71.1 cm

Private collection

In the Middle East, fortunetellers use tarot cards kept in red boxes and read coffee grounds and buy prophetic poems by medieval sages. In Iran, fortunetellers use jyotish (“the science of light”), a practice related to astrology that is said to have originated in Persia. Sessions often last two hours.

Clemente Pujol de Gustavinon. Not only was he a highly talented painter in oils and watercolours but as a skilled draughtsman, Pujol was a very accomplished engraver. His subject matter varied, ranging from portraiture, figurative and genre scenes to superb Oriental views, especially those set in Morocco and Algiers, for which he gained great renown. Of Spanish extraction, he was born near Barcelona in about 1850. Pujol began his formal art education in Barcelona at the Escuela de Bellas Artes; he firstly made a name for himself when from 1871 to 1874 he showed at the Exposiciones Barcelonas de Belles Artes. Having already established repute in his native country, in 1876 Pujol travelled to Paris where he furthered his artistic studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Louis Nicolas Cabat (1812-1893) and then under Jean Léon Gêrome (1824-1904). Gêrome had a profound influence on Pujol’s art, not only in his love of North Africa and its people but also in his use of dramatic colouring and attention to detail.

Pujol enjoyed great success at the Paris Salon from 1876 up until 1905 for his genre scenes, historical costume dramas and subsequently Oriental paintings. In addition to Paris, he showed his pictures in Austria, at Munich in 1883 and contributed to the Barcelona exhibition of Sala Parés in 1884. During the 1880s he began executing works inspired by the Orient. Pujol also gained considerable acclaim at the Paris Salon when he exhibited Prière à Mosquée in 1888 and Depart Pour la Chasse in 1889. That same year he was awarded an honorable mention for his Orientalist painting Danse Mauresque and others at the Universal Exhibition of Paris. Further awards were to follow. More on Clemente Pujol de Gustavinon

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01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 76

Louis Debucourt Philibert after Carle Vernet

CHARGE OF MAMELOUK, c. 1802-04

Aquatints printed in colors

54 x 64 cm. ; 21 x 25 in.
Private collection

Mamluk is an Arabic designation for slaves. The term is most commonly used to refer to non-muslim slave soldiers and Muslim rulers of slave origin.

The most enduring Mamluk realm was the knightly military caste in Egypt in the Middle Ages, which developed from the ranks of slave soldiers. The "mamluk phenomenon", as David Ayalon dubbed the creation of the specific warrior class, was of great political importance; for one thing, it endured for nearly 1000 years, from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. More on the Mamluks

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, (13 February 1755 – 22 September 1832) was a French painter and engraver.

Debucourt, was born in Paris in 1755, and became a pupil of Vien. He executed a few plates in mezzotint, such as the Heureuse famille, the Benediction de la mariée, and the Cruche cassée, after his own designs. Most of his work was, however, in aquatint. He became the leading maker of multi-plate colour prints, combining washes of aquatint with line-engraving. 

Debucourt's father-in-law was the sculptor Louis-Philippe Mouchy. In the marriage contract Mouchy generously offered to provide a three-room apartment at the Louvre, where Debucourt lived for twelve and a half years. The address of this apartment is often given on his prints.[4] Some of his work was satirical, such as La promenade publique, an aquatint of 1792 showing a crowd in the gardens the Palais-Royal. As well as work from his own designs, he made aquatints after Carle Vernet, including the Horse Frightened by a Lion, the Horse Frightened by Lightning and the Strayed Huntsman and the CHARGE OF MAMELOUK.

Debucourt was assisted for some years by his pupil and nephew, Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet. He died at Belleville in 1832. More on Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Antoine Charles Horace Vernet aka. Carle Vernet (14 August 1758 – 17 November 1836) was a French painter born in Bordeaux. At the age of five, he showed an extraordinary passion for drawing horses, but went through the regular academical course as a pupil of his father and of Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié. Strangely, after winning the grand prix (1782), he seemed to lose interest in the profession, and his father had to recall him back from Rome to France to prevent him from entering a monastery.

In his Triumph of Aemilius Paulus, he broke with tradition and drew the horse with the forms he had learnt from nature in stables and riding-schools. His hunting-pieces, races, landscapes, and work as a lithographer were also very popular.

Carle's sister was executed by the guillotine during the Revolution. After this, he gave up art.

When he again began to produce under the French Directory (1795–1799), his style had changed radically. He started drawing in minute detail battles and campaigns to glorify Napoleon. His drawings of Napoleon's Italian campaign won acclaim as did the Battle of Marengo, and for his Morning of Austerlitz Napoleon awarded him the Legion of Honour, and Louis XVIII of France awarded him the Order of Saint Michael. Afterwards he excelled in hunting scenes and depictions of horses. More on Carle Vernet

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