Paul B. Pascal

“Figures on Camelback along the Nile”

Circa 1885

Paul Pascal was a French landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with gouache. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness with Native Americans. His artwork is exhibited in museums in France. Pascal was born in 1839 in Toulouse, France. His family were ébénistes (cabinet-makers). He grew up in North America, but he returned to France, where he graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He began his career as a painter in Toulouse in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he moved to Paris, where he became a landscape painter. Pascal mostly did landscapes of the Middle East, but also of Italy, the Mediterranean coast and the Pyrenees. He only painted with gouache. Pascal emigrated to the United States in 1893. He continued to do landscape paintings, including some depicting Native Americans. Pascal's paintings are exhibited at the Musée Paul Dupuy in Toulouse, the Art and History Museum in Narbonne and the Beaux-Arts Museum in Agen in southwestern France.