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Arabs Watering Their Horses

Eugène Fromentin (AKA Eugène Fromentin-Depeux), French, (October 24, 1820–August 27, 1876)

Creation date: ca. 1865-1875

Other Information

Type: Oil Painting

Medium and Support: Oil on panel

Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy B. Mills

Accession Number: 1946.81

Dimensions: 9 3/8 in. x 15 1/2 in. (23.81 cm x 39.37 cm)

Provenance

Dorothy B. Mills, ( - December 1946)

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (December 1946 - )

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This painting brings together several officially recognized aspects of painting in Paris during the mid-19th century. Since the beginning of the century, large numbers of French artists had been lured to the exotic world of North Africa and the Islamic Near and Middle East. There they reveled in alien subjects, dazzling southern light, and foreign activities. Orientalist paintings—as the works became known—were embraced by the Academy and pursued by collectors. Fromentin found tremendous inspiration in Orientalist subjects, although by the later 1850s, he shunned the traditional, bright Orientalist palette and was instead influenced by Corot, who dominated landscape painting at the Salon during the mid-century. The restrained palette, careful modulation of tonalities, and subtle color balance that are characteristic of French Barbizon landscapes are used here to depict the daily activities of distant lands.
Last Updated: 7/15/2019

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

The Horse in Art San Diego Museum of Art , 1/18/1963 - 2/24/1963

The Horse in Art , 6/21/1974 - 7/22/1974

The Horse in Art: Paintings–Sculpture, 17th-20th Century, Graphics, 15th-20th Santa Barbara Museum of Art , 6/22/1974 - 7/21/1974

Gallery Rotation San Diego Museum of Art , 12/5/2013 - 5/31/2014

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Mr. Martin E. Petersen. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1993
Page Number: 105

Julia Gethman Andrews (DUP). A Catalogue of European Paintings, 1300-1870 San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1947
Page Number: 145, Figure Number: 145

The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego Catalogue: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1960
Page Number: 46

The Horse in Art: Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, California, 1974
Page Number: cat. no. 9

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