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Outstanding orientalist oil on panel depicting characters sitting in a bivouac or camping in the shade of large trees, certainly in Algeria, signed A.Chataud * in a wooden frame stuccoed golden decorated with palm leaves, XIXth century.
This oil is in good condition, it is of outstanding quality. It is signed lower right. Its setting is perhaps not the original one.
A note: slight wear of time, see pictures.
student of Emile Loubon he joined, like many Provençal artists of this generation, in the studio of Gleyre in Paris and became friends with Guigou and Monticelli. He made his first trip in 1856 in Algeria stays Algiers, Bone, then Morocco and Tunisia, wintering in his Paris studio. He exhibited his paintings, fancy first and then more and more related to everyday life in Marseille and the Paris Salon. In 1892 he moved into the family estate near Sidi Mousssa, created in 1897 and the League of Algerian artists and orientalists. Freed from the exoticism of his first works he painted simple, luminous landscapes animated characters. (Dictionary of small masters of the painting)
Artist referenced in books including: "Artists of Algeria" by Elisabeth Cazenave (Editions of The Wave) and "Orientalists, traveling painters" by Lynne Thornton (ACR Editions)
Artist very well on ArtPrice side.
