Eugène Fromentin (December, 1820 - August 27, 1876) was a French painter. December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ...

He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, 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. The entrance to the old La Rochelle harbour, with the two 14th century towers. ... North Africa is a region generally considered to include: Algeria Egypt Libya Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara The Canary Islands, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

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 mor artistic results than contributions to ethnological science. 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

His first great success was produced at the Salon of 1847, by the "Gorges de la Chiffa." Among his more important works are: Honoré Daumier satirized the bourgeoises scandalized by the Salons Venuses, 1864 The Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris) was an institution in French official art patronage, founded in Paris, France in 1673 to exhibit art works, particularly paintings. ...

• "La Place de la brôche a Constantine" (1849)
• "Enterrement Maure" (1853)
• "Bateleurs nêgres" (1859)
• "Audience chez un chalife" (1859)
• "Berger kabyle" (1859)
• "Courriers arabes" (1861)
• "Bivouac arabe" (1863)
• "Chasse au faucon" (1863)
• "Fauconnier arabe (now at Luxembourg) (1863)
• "Chasse au héron" (1865)
• "Voleurs de nuit" (1867)
• "Centaurs et arabes attaqués par une liorine" (1868)
• "Halte de muletiers" (1869)
• "Le Nil" (1875)
• "Un Souvenir d'Esneh" (1875)

Fromentin was much influenced in style by Eugène Delacroix. 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. Eugène Delacroix (portrait by Nadar) Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( April 26, 1798 - August 13, 1863) was an important painter from the French romantic period. ...

But it must be observed that Fromentin's paintings show only one side of a genius that was perhaps even more felicitously expressed in literature, though of course with less profusion. Dominique, first published in the Revue des deux mondes in 1862, and dedicated to George Sand, is remarkable among the fiction of the century for delicate and imaginative observation and for emotional earnestness. The Revue des Deux Mondes is a monthly French language magazine. ... 1862 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... George Sand (portrait by Nadar) Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 – June 8, 1876) was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word), writing under the pen name of George Sand. ...

Fromentin's other literary works are Visites artistiques (1852); Simples Pélerinages (1856); Un Et dons le Sahara (1857); Une Année dans le Sahel (1858); and Les Maîtres d'autre fois (1876). In 1876 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Academy. He died suddenly at La Rochelle on August 27, 1876.

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