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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (March 3, 1803 – August 22, 1860) was a French painter noted for his Orientalist works.

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
BornMarch 3, 1803
Paris, France
DiedAugust 22, 1860
Fontainebleau, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting, drawing
MovementOrientalist

Life


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.[1]

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


Founding father of Orientalism


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.[2] 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.[3] Maxime Du Camp named him the Christopher Columbus of the Orient[4] 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.[5] Christine Peltre concludes that the only equivalent to his fame were the Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights).[6]


Works


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.

A version of The Turkish Patrol (1831)
A version of The Turkish Patrol (1831)

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.




See also



References


  1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 909. Endnote:
    • Adolphe Moreau, Decamps et son oeuvre (Paris, 1869)
  2. Garnier, Nicole (2012). Delacroix et l'aube de l'orientalisme, de Decamps à Fromentin. Paris: Somogy Editions d'art - Domaine de Chantilly. p. 40. ISBN 978-2-7572-0609-6.
  3. James, Henry (1878). French Poets and Novelists. London: Macmillan and Co. p. 54.
  4. Du Camp, Maxime (1855). Les Beaux-Arts à l'Exposition universelle de 1855. Paris: Librairie nouvelle. p. 150.
  5. Gautier, Théophile (1855). Les Beaux-Arts en Europe. Paris: Michel Lévy frères. p. 193 of 217.
  6. Peltre, Christine (1995). L'Atelier du voyage. Paris: Le Promeneur. p. 89; 90.



На других языках

[de] Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (* 3. März 1803 in Paris; † 22. August 1860) war ein französischer Maler.
- [en] Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

[es] Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (París, 3 de marzo de 1803 - 22 de agosto de 1860) fue un pintor francés.

[fr] Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, né à Paris le 3 mars 1803 et mort à Fontainebleau le 22 août 1860, est un peintre et graveur français, l'une des grandes figures du romantisme. Une partie importante de son œuvre est conservée au musée du Louvre à Paris, au musée Condé de Chantilly et à la Wallace Collection de Londres.

[it] Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (Parigi, 3 marzo 1803 – Fontainebleau, 22 agosto 1860) è stato un pittore francese.

[ru] Декан, Александр-Габриэль

Алекса́ндр-Габриэ́ль Дека́н (фр. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps; 3 марта 1803, Париж — 22 августа 1860, Фонтенбло) — французский живописец и график, представитель академизма.


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