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See also:FROMENTIN, See also:EUGENE (1820-1876) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at La Rochelle in See also:December 182o. After leaving school he studied for some years under See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of See also:Algeria, having been able, while quite See also:young, to visit the See also:land and See also:people that suggested the subjects of most of his See also:works, and to See also:store his memory as well as his See also:portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of See also:North See also:African See also:life. In 1849 he obtained a See also:medal of the second class. In 1852 he paid a second visit to Algeria, accompanying an archaeological See also:mission, and then completed that See also:minute study of the scenery of the See also:country and of the habits of its people which enabled him to give to his after-See also:work the realistic accuracy that comes from intimate knowledge. In a certain sense his works are not more See also:artistic results than contributions to ethnological See also:science. His first See also:great success was produced at the See also:Salon of 1847, by the " See also:Gorges de la Chiffa." Among his more important works are—" La See also:Place de la breche A. See also:Constantine " (1849); " Enterrement
Maure " (18J3); " Bateleurs negres " and " See also:Audience chez un chalife " (1859); " Berger kabyle " and " Courriers arabes (1861); " See also:Bivouac arabe," " See also:Chasse au faucon," " Fauconnier arabe " (now at Luxembourg) (1863); " Chasse au See also:heron " (1865) ; " Voleurs de nuit " (1867) ; " See also:Centaurs et arabes attaques See also:par une See also:lionne " (1868); " Halte de muletiers " (1869); " Le Nil " and " Un Souvenir d'Esneh " (1875). Fromentin was much influenced in See also:style by Eugene See also:Delacroix. His works are distinguished by striking See also:composition, great dexterity of See also:hand-See also:ling and brilliancy of See also:colour. In them is given with great truth and refinement the unconscious grandeur of See also:barbarian and See also:animal attitudes and gestures. His later works, however, show signs of an exhausted vein and of an exhausted spirit, accompanied or caused by See also:physical enfeeblement. But it must be observed that Fromentin's paintings show only one See also:side of a See also:genius that was perhaps even more felicitously expressed in literature, though of course with less profusion. " Dominique," first published in the Revue See also:des deux mondes in 1862, and dedicated to See also:George See also:Sand, is remarkable among the fiction of the See also:century for delicate and imaginative observation and for emotional earnestness. Fromentin's other See also:literary works are—Visites artistiques (1852); Simples Pelerinages (1856); Un Ete clans le See also:Sahara (18J7); Une Annie Bans le See also:Sahel (1858); and See also:Les Maitres d'autrejois (1876). In 1876 he was an unsuccessful See also:candidate for the See also:Academy. He died suddenly at La Rochelle on the 27th of See also:August 1876.
End of Article: FROMENTIN, EUGENE (1820-1876)
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