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Edme Alexis Alfred Dehodencq Art

French, 1822-1882
Born in Paris on 23 April 1822, Edmé-Alexis-Alfred Dehodencq entered the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Cogniet. Wounded in the right arm during the 1848 revolution, he had to relearn to paint with his left hand — an episode that shaped his lasting taste for instinct and speed of execution over academic finish. He then traveled to Spain, where he discovered Velázquez and Goya, before settling in Morocco for nearly nine years, in Tangier and Tetouan. There he painted scenes of Jewish and Muslim life, markets, festivals, and executions, of which La Justice du Pacha (Musée Salies, Bagnères-de-Bigorre) remains one of the most striking examples. In 1857 he married Marie-Amalda Calderon y Sarmiento in Cadiz; their son Edmond, nicknamed “the Mozart of painting,” exhibited at the Salon at age eleven. Returning to Paris in 1863, Dehodencq gradually moved away from Orientalist subjects toward more intimate themes — portraits, scenes of children, studio interiors — anticipating motifs later taken up by Auguste Renoir, whose debt to him is acknowledged. Awarded the Legion of Honour in 1870, he took his own life on 2 January 1882 after a long illness, and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery beneath a headstone bearing a bust sculpted by his son.
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Artist: Edme Alexis Alfred Dehodencq
Study of a hand; preparatory work for the painting Jewish Bride in Morocco, 1867
Study of a hand; preparatory work for the painting Jewish Bride in Morocco, 1867

Study of a hand; preparatory work for the painting Jewish Bride in Morocco, 1867

By Alfred Dehodencq

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Alfred DEHODENCQ (1822-1982) Study of a hand; preparatory to the painting Jewish Bride in Morocco, 1867 Pencil on paper Dimensions of work: 15.5 x 17.5 cm Frame size : 30 x 30 cm A...

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