11 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, #15
Aug 9, 2022
Les cavaliers — 1919
Huile sur panneau
h: 46 w: 55 cm
Private collection
Henri Rousseau Henry, Emilien Rousseau (Cairo 1875 — Aix-en-Provence in 1933) is an Orientalist painter. A pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Beaux Arts in Paris, he won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1900 and a travel grant at the Salon of French Artists. He traveled to Belgium, the Netherlands, North Africa, Spain and Italy where he admired the great masters (Rubens, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Murillo, the Titian, Raphael etc …)…