Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Property from a Private collection
Eugène Fromentin
A view of Donzère
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January 30, 06:03 PM GMT
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30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Property from a Private collection
Eugène Fromentin
La Rochelle 1820 - 1876
A view of Donzère
signed, dated, and inscribed lower right: Donzere / Eug. Fro... 67 ....
oil on paper, laid on panel
panel: 6 by 12 7/8 in.; 15.2 by 32.7 cm.
framed: 10 3/4 by 17 7/8 in.; 27.3 by 43.2 cm.
With Giacomo Algranti, London;
From whom acquired, 2004.
One of the great French Orientalist painters of the nineteenth century, Eugène Fromentin was trained as a landscapist in Rémond's studio and under Louis Cabat before he began traveling to North Africa. He was one of the earliest artists to interpret life in Algeria, where he returned numerous times.
The present plein-air landscape was painted in Donzère in the southeast of France, on the left bank of the Rhône.