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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps - The Roman Campagna

The Roman Campagna (c. 1847)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was a French painter noted for his Orientalist works.

Decamps was born in Paris. In his youth he travelled in the East, and reproduced Oriental life and scenery with a bold fidelity to nature that puzzled conventional critics. His powers, however, soon came to be recognized, and he was ranked along with Delacroix and Ingres as one of the leaders of the French school. At the Paris Exhibition of 1855 he received the grand or council medal. Most of his life was passed in the neighborhood of Paris. He was fond of animals, especially dogs, and indulged in all kinds of field sports.

He died in 1860 in consequence of being thrown from a horse while hunting at Fontainebleau.

Decamps was the founding father of Orientalism since he revealed everyday Oriental life in the 1831 Salon in Paris. His subjects and style with strong contrast of light and thick material became the reference for painters but also photographers and writers. He was the most influential painter on Orientalism and was proclaimed the chief of the new Orientalist School. Delacroix referred to him in the Women of Algiers (1834), and the Fanatics of Tangiers (1838). Théophile Gautier's Constantinople (1853) was described as an “immense verbal Decamps” by Henry James. Maxime Du Camp named him the Christopher Columbus of the Orient and Théophile Gautier compared his role as the discoverer of the Orient to the role of Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the discoverer of nature in the eighteenth century. Christine Peltre concludes that the only equivalent to his fame were the Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights).

Decamps' style was characteristically and intensely French. It was marked by vivid dramatic conception, bold and even rough brushstrokes, and startling contrasts of color and of light and shade. His subjects embraced an unusually wide range. He availed himself of his travels in the East in dealing with scenes from Scripture history, which he was probably the first of European painters to represent with their true and natural local background. Of this class were his Joseph sold by his Brethren, Moses taken from the Nile, and his scenes from the life of Samson, nine vigorous sketches in charcoal and white.

Perhaps the most impressive of his historical pictures is Defeat of the Cimbri, representing the conflict between a horde of barbarians and a disciplined army. Decamps produced a number of genre pictures, chiefly scenes from French and Turkish domestic life, the most marked feature of which is humour. The same characteristic attaches to many of his numerous animal paintings; Decamps was especially fond of painting monkeys. His well-known painting The Monkey Connoisseurs satirizes the jury of the French Academy of Painting, which had rejected several of his earlier works on account of their divergence from any known standard.

His paintings and drawings were first made familiar to the English public through the lithographs of Eugene le Rouit.

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Passing By on the Other Side

Passing By on the Other Side (after 1839)

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The Good Samaritan

The Good Samaritan (1853)

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The Reading of a Firman

The Reading of a Firman (1833 - 1834)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
The Finding of Moses

The Finding of Moses (1837)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
Joseph sold by his Brethren

Joseph sold by his Brethren (1838)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
The year of grace 1840, the glorious reign of Charles X the 16th

The year of grace 1840, the glorious reign of Charles X the 16th

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
The scissors sharpener

The scissors sharpener (1823-1860)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
Landscape with the Good Samaritan

Landscape with the Good Samaritan (c. 1837)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
The Deciding Throw

The Deciding Throw (c. 1820–60)

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A House in Turkey

A House in Turkey (1820-60)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
Children gathering Flowers

Children gathering Flowers (1844)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
A Well in the East

A Well in the East (1847)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
Eastern Women at a Well

Eastern Women at a Well (1851)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
Pavilion at the Edge of a River

Pavilion at the Edge of a River (c. 1833–60)

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
Goatherd of the Abruzzi

Goatherd of the Abruzzi (c. 1845)

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