French painter and author, Eugène Fromentin,(October 24, 1820 – August 27, 1876) , best known for his depictions of the land and people of Algeria. Fromentin inspired by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Eugène Delacroix, Fromentin abandoned his early stiffness in design and execution and developed into a brilliant colourist. “Fauconnier arabe” and “Chasse au héron” clearly show his debt to Delacroix. Fromentin’s paintings show only one side of a talent that was perhaps even more felicitously expressed in literature; “Dominique,” first published in the Revue des Deux Mondes in 1862 and dedicated to George Sand, is remarkable among the fiction of the century for imaginative observation.
eugene fromentin paintings
