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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

French painter (1803–1860)

1803 – 1860

Wikidata (Q458288) ↗

About

Works (3)

Searching for Truffles1845
Intérieur de cour rustique à Fontainebleau1844
Christ on trial1847

Influence

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Related creators

Francisco GoyaArtist · 1746
William BlakeArtist · 1757
Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresArtist · 1780
Eugène DelacroixArtist · 1798
J. M. W. TurnerArtist · 1775
Francesco HayezArtist · 1791
Gustave DoréArtist · 1832
Théodore GéricaultArtist · 1791

Influence

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Studied under

Abel de Pujol
Étienne Bouhot

Students

Louis Godefroy Jadin
Louis Devedeux
Louis Vincent Fouquet
Émile Charles Labbé
Étienne Sabatier
Marie-Cécile Donnier

Connected on Wikidata

Creator of

The Experts
The Defeat of the Cimbri
The Suicide
The Monkey Painter
The Punishment of the Hooks
The Watering Place
Searching for Truffles
Christ on trial
Orange Merchant
Turkish Merchant Smoking in His Shop
Souvenir de la Turquie d'Asie, dit aussi Enfants turcs auprès d'une fontaine
Sunset, Tombs Near Cairo

Subject of

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel
Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel
Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Alexandre Decamps
Self-Portrait
Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel
Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel

Depicted in

Self-Portrait

painter, lithographer, printmaker, draftsperson

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps — Alphonse-Charles Masson / After Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia ↗Images on Commons ↗

Born: 3 March 1803, Paris
Died: 22 August 1860, Fontainebleau
Citizenship: France
Movement: Romanticism, Orientalism
Genre: Orientalism
Field of work: painting, printmaking
Employer: Le Charivari
Awards: Knight of the Legion of Honour
Buried at: cemetery of Fontainebleau
artist files at: Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
cause of death: horse fall
described by source: Nordisk familjebok, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Paintings of the nineteenth century: contribution to the history of art, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, The Art of The Countries and Peoples of The World. Tome 5
family name: Decamps
given name: Alexandre
has works in the collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Finnish National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Amsterdam Museum, Rijksmuseum, Centraal Museum, National Galleries Scotland, National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers
instance of: human
languages spoken, written or signed: French
manner of death: accidental death
name in native language: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
named after: rue Decamps
sex or gender: male

Authority files

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About

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (March 3, 1803 – August 22, 1860) was a French painter noted for his Orientalist works.

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