Eugene Fromentin

{"Id":184,"Name":"Eugene Fromentin","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFROMENTIN, EUGENE (1820-1876)\u003C/strong\u003E, French painter, was born at La Rochelle in December 1820. After leaving school he studied for some years under \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=526\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022linklink\u0022\u003ELouis Cabat\u003C/a\u003E [1812-1893], the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life. In 1849 he obtained a medal of the second class. In 1852 he paid a second visit to Algeria, accompanying an archaeological mission, and then completed that minute study of the scenery of the country and of the habits of its people which enabled him to give to his after-work the realistic accuracy that comes from intimate knowledge. In a certain sense his works are not more artistic results than contributions to ethnological science. His first great success was produced at the Salon of 1847, by the \u003Cu\u003EGorges de la Chiffa\u003C/u\u003E. Among his more important works are \u003Cu\u003ELa Place de la broche \u0026agrave; Constantine\u003C/u\u003E [sic] (1849); \u003Cu\u003EEnterrement Maure\u003C/u\u003E [Moorish Burial] (1853); \u003Cu\u003EBateleurs n\u0026egrave;gres\u003C/u\u003E [Negro Jugglers] and \u003Cu\u003EAudience chez un calife\u003C/u\u003E [Audience of the Caliph] (1859); \u003Cu\u003EBerger kabyle\u003C/u\u003E [Kabyle Shepherd] and \u003Cu\u003ECourriers arabes\u003C/u\u003E [Arab Couriers] (1861); \u003Cu\u003EBivouac arabe\u003C/u\u003E, \u003Cu\u003EChasse au faucon\u003C/u\u003E [Hunt with the Falcon], \u003Cu\u003EFauconnier arabe\u003C/u\u003E [Arab falconer] (now at Luxembourg) (1863); \u003Cu\u003EChasse au heron\u003C/u\u003E [Hunt with the Heron] (1865); \u003Cu\u003EVoleurs de nuit\u003C/u\u003E [Night Robbers] (1867); \u003Cu\u003ECentaurs et arabes attaques par une lionne\u003C/u\u003E [Centaurs and Arabians Attacked by a Lioness] (1868); \u003Cu\u003EHalte de muletiers\u003C/u\u003E (1869); \u003Cu\u003ELe Nil\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003EUn Souvenir d\u0027Esneh\u003C/u\u003E (I875). Fromentin was much influenced in style by \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=48\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EEug\u0026egrave;ne Delacroix\u003C/a\u003E [1798-1863]. His works are distinguished by striking composition, great dexterity of handling and brilliancy of colour. In them is given with great truth and refinement the unconscious grandeur of barbarian and animal attitudes and gestures. His later works, however, show signs of an exhausted vein and of an exhausted spirit, accompanied or caused by physical enfeeblement. But it must be observed that Fromentin\u0027s paintings show only one side of a genius that was perhaps even more felicitously expressed in literature, though of course with less profusion. \u003Cu\u003EDominique\u003C/u\u003E, first published in the \u003Cu\u003ERevue des deux mondes\u003C/u\u003E in 1862, and dedicated to George Sand [1804-1876], is remarkable among the fiction of the century for delicate and imaginative observation and for emotional earnestness. Fromentin\u0027s other literary works are \u003Cu\u003EVisites artistiques\u003C/u\u003E (1852); \u003Cu\u003ESimples P\u0026egrave;lerinages\u003C/u\u003E (1856); \u003Cu\u003EUn \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; dans le Sahara\u003C/u\u003E [A Summer in the Sahara] (1857); \u003Cu\u003EUne Ann\u0026eacute;e dans le Sahel\u003C/u\u003E [A Year in the Sahel] (1858); and \u003Cu\u003ELes ma\u0026icirc;tres d\u0027autrefois\u003C/u\u003E (1876). In 1876 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Academy. He died suddenly at La Rochelle on the 27th of August 1876.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://4.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FR/FROMENTIN_EUGENE.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":true,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":22}