01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #60

Victor Pierre Huguet, French, 1835 - 1902

AT THE WADI

Oil on canvas

115 by 147cm., 45 by 58¾in.

Private collection

Wadi is the Arabic term referring to a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season.

Victor Pierre Huguet, born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in Paris.

In 1852, aged 17, he traveled to Egypt, then to Crimea where he accompanied Durand-Brager before the siege of Sebastopol. He was profoundly influenced by the landscapes he passes through and that will influence his inspiration to Orientalism, where he soon made a name. Discovering Algeria a few years later, he drew from many sources of inspiration.

He exhibited at the Salons de Marseille and Paris in 1859 and the Salon of French Orientalist Painters at its inception in 1893. He was the leading Orientalist artists of Provence. More Victor Pierre Huguet

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Louis Theodore Devilly Metz, 1818; Nancy, 1886, France

The fight of Sidi Brahim, c. 1859

Oil on canvas

H. 192.6; L. 266.7

Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux

The subject of this painting was borrowed from the retelling of the fight of Sidi-Brahim (September 26, 1845) written by the Duke of Aumale for the Revue des Deux-Mondes. "The captain of Gérés, at the head of 73 men of the 1st company of the 8th battalion of foot hunters, carrying seven wounded, after having defended for 3 days in the marabout of Sidi-Brahim, without food and without water, against all the forces of Abd-El-Kader, try on September 26, 1845, at six o'clock in the morning, to make a bayonet day.After a heroic fight, exhausted forces and ammunition, all the brave men who formed the little column fall successively around the corps of their officers, Lieutenant Chapedelaine and the captain of Géraux". More on this painting

Louis Theodore Devilly Metz, 1818; Nancy, 1886, France

Detail, The fight of Sidi Brahim, c. 1859

Oil on canvas

H. 192.6; L. 266.7

Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux

Louis Theodore Devilly (born in Metz the 28 October 1818 and died in Nancy the 24 December 1886 ) was a French painter of the xix th  century . Member of the School of Metz , he moved to Nancy in 1871 , after the annexation . He is the author of paintings of romantic inspiration, sometimes orientalist subjects .

Louis-Théodore Devilly was born in Metz on October 28, 1818 1 . His father, Louis-Jean-Baptiste (1792-1826), who was a notable Messinian, a member of the Royal Academy of Metz, died in 1826.

From 1833 to 1835, Louis-Théodore Devilly attended the classes of Laurent-Charles Maréchal , the leader of the School of Metz. He then wins Paris , where he became a student of the painter Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Friend of Decamps, Aimé de Lemud , Diaz, Théophile Gautier, Devilly practiced the art of engraving and that of watercolor. He participated in the Salon of painting and sculpture of 1840 in Paris. He returned to Metz live his art in 1841. This did not prevent him to participate in other exhibitions, including at the 1852 Salon, where he received a silver medal. His contemporaries particularly appreciate his great realistic compositions, where his talents as a history painter can express himself fully.

In 1864, Louis-Théodore Devilly was appointed director of the Metz School of Fine Arts . After the Franco - German War of 1870 , Devilly opted for France and left his hometown, attached to the German Empire . He moved to Nancy, where he took the direction of the School of Fine Arts. After a busy career, Louis-Théodore Devilly died in Nancy on December 24 , 1886. More on Louis-Théodore Devilly

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Victor Huguet, 1835 - 1902, FRENCH

Riders in a Ravine 

Oil on canvas

118 by 100cm., 46½ by 39¼in.

Private collection

Victor Pierre Huguet , born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in Paris.

In 1852, aged 17, he traveled to Egypt, then to Crimea where he accompanied Durand-Brager before the siege of Sebastopol. He was profoundly influenced by the landscapes he passes through and that will influence his inspiration to Orientalism, where he soon made a name. Discovering Algeria a few years later, he drew from many sources of inspiration.

He exhibited at the Salons de Marseille and Paris in 1859 and the Salon of French Orientalist Painters at its inception in 1893. He was the leading Orientalist artists of Provence. More Victor Pierre Huguet

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Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger, (FRENCH 1824 - 1888)

Aristocratic ladies promenading at the city walls, c. 1869

Oil on canvas

73 x 50cm

Private collection

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – October 1888) was a French figure painter known for his classical and Orientalist subjects. He was born at Paris in 1824, and orphaned at age 14 His uncle and guardian subsequently sent him to the studio of Pierre-Jules Jollivet and then to Delaroche in 1840. In 1849 took the Prix de Rome with his painting, Ulysses, a work which combined a classical approach with Orientalist overtones.

In 1845, he first visited Algeria and this gave him an interest in Orientalist themes. Boulanger's knowledge of Pompeii, which he visited while studying at the École de Rome, also gave him ideas for many future works. His paintings are prime examples of academic art of the time, particularly history painting. Boulanger had visited Italy, Greece, and North Africa, and his paintings reflect his attention to culturally correct details and skill in rendering the female form.


He began teaching at the Institut de France in 1882 and was an influential teacher, noted for his dislike of the Impressionism. More on Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger

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