Gustave Guillaumet

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Gustave Guillaumet

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French artist. He is best known for his paintings of North Africa. Guillaumet was initially a student of François-Edouard Picot and Félix-Joseph Barrias. In 1857 he joined the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris[5] where he became a student of Alexandre Abel de Pujol. In 1861 Guillaumet entered the Historical Landscape category of thePrix de Rome for a scholarship to study at the Academy of France in Rome. On failing to win, he instead travelled across the Mediterranean to Algeria, in north Africa. While there he contracted malaria and had to spend three months at the military hospital in Biskra. Guillaumet visited Algeria ten times between 1861 and 1867. He preferred to travel in the south and many of his works depict the life of the people of the desert. Whereas Orientalism generally gave a deliberately idealised or anecdotal picture of north Africa, Guillaumet's work was notable for portraying the harshness of life in a desert region. The Sahara features the carcass of a camel in the foreground with a caravan - or mirage of one - on the horizon and empty desert in-between. It was first exhibited to considerable success at the Salon of 1868. Between 1879 and 1884 La Nouvelle Revue published tableaux of Algerian scenes collected together by Guillaumet. These were later published as a book, Tableaux Algériens. It includes twelve echings by Guillaumet, Courtry, Paul Edmé Le Rat, Adolphe-Alphonse Géry-Bichard, August Müller and Toussaint; six photogravures by Dujardin and one hundred and twenty-eight engravings in relief from drawings and sketches by Guillaumet, himself. The book was published in 1888, after Guillaumet's death and is prefaced by a note on his life by Eugène Mouton. In 1878, Guillaumet was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France. Oil on board, 11" H x 16" W, overall size 17" H x 22.5" W, signed lower left, circa 1875.

Creator:
Gustave Achille Guillaumet (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Style:
Other (Of the Period)
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
Late 19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1875
Condition:
Seller Location:
Houston, TX
Reference Number:
1stDibs: f150321701306524553fs