Gustave Guillaumet
French Painter, 1840-1887
French painter and writer. He was a student of Fran?ois-Edouard Picot, Alexandre Abel de Pujol and F?lix Barrias. After failing to win the Prix de Rome in historical landscape in 1861, he impulsively visited Algeria the following year; this journey, which he repeated ten times, determined his development as an Orientalist painter. He was a regular exhibitor at the Salon from 1861 where his combination of picturesque realism and academic composition was positively received by the State as illustrative of its Algerian policies
ID: 25235 Ain Kerma (source du figuier) smala de Tiaret en Algerie (mk32) huile sur toile signee et datee 1867
142 x 104 cm Musee des Beaux-Arts Pau Exoposee au Salon de 1867 et offerte par Napoleon III au musee de pau
