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Henri Émilien ROUSSEAU (Cairo 1875 – Aix-en-Provence 1933)
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Henri Émilien ROUSSEAU (Cairo 1875 – Aix-en-Provence 1933)
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Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Henri Émilien ROUSSEAU (Cairo 1875 – Aix-en-Provence 1933)
The Bride’s Palanquin, Algeria, 1924
Oil on original canvas
50 x 73 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Henri Rousseau 24
Bears the handwritten annotations ‘The Bride’s Palanquin, Algeria’ on the stretcher
Bears two old labels, 1381–4500 and 7264, on the stretcher crossbar
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Oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated (19⅝ × 28¾ in.)
Provenance
Galerie Georges Petit.
Bibliography
Paul Ruffié, *Le Dernier Orientaliste — Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre de Henri Émilien Rousseau*, p. 189 (illustrated).
We would like to thank the Henri Émilien Rousseau Association for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work.
Henri Émilien Rousseau (Cairo, 1875 – Aix-en-Provence, 1933) was born into a family of engineers involved in the construction of the Suez Canal; returning to France after the Anglo-Egyptian War, he became a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts and was awarded the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1900. His travel grants took him to Tunisia and Algeria as early as 1901, and then, for more than thirty years, throughout the Maghreb — he settled in Aix-en-Provence in 1919 and worked in Morocco from 1920 to 1932. Regarded as one of the last great French Orientalists in the tradition of Delacroix and Fromentin, he made the horse the unifying motif of his work, leaving behind, on his death, more than 900 paintings, 300 watercolours and a thousand drawings.
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