01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #51

Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière, (1864 - 1945)

ORIENTALES À L’OASIS/ ARAB WOMEN BY THE OASIS 

Oil on canvas

90 X 130 CM (35 7/16 X 51 3/16 IN.)

Private collection

Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière was born in Paris on May 1, 1864 died in Moret sur Loing on January 14, 1945. -Ecole Française

A pupil of Jules Lefèvre, Gustave Boulanger and Benjamin Constant, he began in 1885 at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was named Sociétaire in 1898. Honorable mention at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He then appeared at the Salon de la Société Nationale of the jury. In 1910 he took part in the Brussels exhibition. He exhibited for the last time in 1938. His paintings were acquired by the Luxembourg Museum, Draguignan, Carpentras, Dreux, Nice, Algiers, oran, Bucharest, Tunis, etc. His palette reminds one of the work of Monticelli. 

The artist was Knight of the Legion of Honor since 1932. More on Charles Henri Gaston Dagnac-Rivière

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01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in their time, with footnotes, 79

Georges Clairin, (1843 - 1919)

PÈLERINAGE DEVANT LA MOSQUÉE/ PILGRIMAGE BY THE MOSQUE 

Oil on canvas

80 X 120 CM (31 1/2 X 47 1/4 IN.)

Private collection

Georges Jules Victor Clairin (11 September 1843, Paris – Pouldu, Clohars-Carnoët 2 September 1919) was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah Bernhardt, his friend for 50 years, and is today best known for his 'in costume' and informal intimate portratits of her.

Clairin was apprenticed in the workshops of Isidore Pils and François-Édouard Picot. In 1861 he entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris, and in 1866 first displayed his work. He travelled to Spain with Henri Regnault and to Italy with François Flameng and Jean-Léon Gérôme. He met the Catalan painter Marià Fortuny in Morocco and they visited Tétouan together. In 1895, he travelled to Egypt with the composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

He is best known for his portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, with whom he had a long friendship and whom he depicted in costume for a number of her roles. More on Georges Clairin

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01 Orientalist Painting , with footnotes, 50

Edouard Verschaffelt, (1874 - 1955)

Fantasia

Oil on canvas, signed lower right. 

35 X 47 CM (13 3/4 X 18 1/2 IN.)

Private collection

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 

Edouard Verschaffelt was a Belgian orientalist painter born in Ghent in 1874 and died in Bou Saâda in 1955. He was deeply rooted in Algeria. He produced paintings of the roots and passion of this Algerian reality, so abused by orientalist exoticism. Edouard Verschaffelt took a contrary view of academic, colonial Orientalism. A pupil of the Antwerp School of Fine Arts, he carries with him, from the beginning, the indelible traces of Flemish painting and the attraction of Impressionism. 

Unlike other Orientalists attracted by North Africa, Edouard Verschaffelt came to Algeria in 1919 to flee the German occupation of Belgium during the First World War. He settles in the country and immediately felt a fascination for Bou Saâda, that he adopted from the outset. Bou Saâda was, at the time, the "stronghold" ofDinet who is a notable of the city especially He converted to Islam; which gives him an extraordinary aura to the Aboriginal population.

After the death of his wife, Verschaffelt marries an Algerian, from the tribe Ouled Sidi Brahim, who appears in the many paintings he devoted to him throughout his life. More on Edouard Verschaffelt

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01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #78

Herman-Maurice Cossmann, (1821 - 1890)

LA BELLE MAROCAINE/ THE PRETTY GIRL FROM MOROCCO 

Oil on canvas

100 X 81 CM (39 3/8 X 31 7/8 IN.)

Private collection

Born in Germany, Herman-Maurice Cossmann studied painting and etching at the studio of Eugene Lepoitevin. He began exhibiting his art at the Salon de Paris in 1845. Herman-Maurice Cossmann moved permanently to that city and became a French citizen several years later.

Most of Cossmann's art is in the medium of etching, where he excelled in figure studies, landscapes, portraits, historical and military scenes. Apres la Bataille (After the Battle). His original etchings are now found in many French collections, including the Musee de Bagneres-de-Bigorre. The National Gallery of Canada (Musee des Beaux-Arts du Canada) includes an impression of this original etching in its permanent collection. More on Herman-Maurice Cossmann

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