21 Works, June 28th. is Otto Pilny’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #175
Jul 25, 2021
Rest in the desert
Oil on canvas
I have no further description, at this time
Otto Pilny (28 June 1866–22 July 1936) was a Swiss painter who specialized in Orientalist genre scenes.
Some of the first nineteenth-century Orientalist paintings were intended as propaganda in support of French imperialism, depicting the East as a place of backwardness, lawlessness, or barbarism enlightened and tamed by French rule…