01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, The Art of War, GUSTAVO SIMONI's CHARGING CAVALIERS, with footnotes #95

GUSTAVO SIMONI (ITALIAN 1846-1926)

CHARGING CAVALIERS, c. 1914

Oil on canvas

45.5cm x 61cm (18in x 24in)

Private collection

Sold for £4,000 in February 2019

Gustavo Simoni was born in Rome. From 1861 until 1866 he studied at the Accademia de San Luca where his teachers were Salvatore Betti, Giuseppe Ferrari and Enrico Tarenghi. By 1875, Simoni had become one of the first members of the Società degli Acquarellisti, founded by Ettore Roesler Franz and Nazzareno Cipriani.

Simoni traveled extensively during the late 1870s and early 1880s, visiting France and Spain, but primarily North Africa, where he spent time in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. For a significant portion of this period, the artist was based in a house in the Algerian town of Tlemcen. There he was visited by friends and fellow artists from Rome and devoted his time to producing numerous studies of the people and architecture of the region. The American painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman was among the group of Orientalists who spent extended periods of time in Tlemcen, similarly finding it to be a rich source of subject matter for their art.

While continuing his travels to North Africa, Gustavo Simoni also became a fixture in the art scenes of both Paris, where he had a studio, and Rome, where he opened a school for Orientalist painting. In 1886, Simoni exhibited two Algerian subjects at the Società degli Amatori e Culture di Belle Arti in Rome. And in 1889, the artist was awarded a gold medal in Paris for his monumental painting depicting the burning of the palace of Persepolis. More on Gustavo Simoni

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01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 26

Gustavo Simoni, 1846 - 1946, ITALIAN

THE CARPET SELLER, c. 1893

Watercolour and pencil on paper

57 by 86.5cm., 22¾ by 34in.

Private collection

Arab Market Scene is the type of on-site composition that Simoni developed into paintings in his studio from travel sketches in North Africa and the Middle East. Although best known for his Orientalist works depicting mosques and other Islamic subject matter — he was particularly fascinated with the village festivals he witnessed in North Africa — Simoni also created images of everyday life, like this market scene, which depicts the daily workings of a village community conversing, walking, and selling beautifully crafted, decorative wares. More on the Arab Market 

Gustavo Simoni ( Rome , 5 November 1845 - Palestrina , 1926 ) was an Italian painter and teacher. He was born in Rome. He had a younger brother, Scipione, who directed him to painting.

He chose to follow the innovative road marked by Mariano Fortuny. Starting in 1877 Gustavo Simoni traveled extensively, going to France, Spain and Africa, where he stayed several times in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. He settled for many years in the ancient city of Tlemcen, in Algeria, in an isolated house where he welcomed friends who came from Rome. He had relationships with authoritative personalities of the place. His fame was gained among collectors and connoisseurs. He won the Gold Medal at the Paris Salon of 1889 and was again awarded in 1895, at the Exposition of Fine Arts in Rome.


He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca . In the late nineteenth century he opened a studio in Paris, where he attended the main exponents of symbolism, satisfying the requests for the orientalist genre in watercolor and, in large sizes, in oil. Back in Rome, he founded his own school of Orientalist painting. He lived in a farmhouse in Via di Villa Patrizi. More on Gustavo Simoni

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