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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Decamps was a French painter who travelled throughout the Middle East and favoured oriental and animal subjects. He had a lifelong love of animals, and returned to animal motifs throughout his career. In his time he was ranked alongside Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) and Horace Vernet (1789-1863) as a leading figure in French painting. Depictions of monkeys were especially common in his work, used either for satirical or grotesque purposes. This tradition went back to the Renaissance, when the ape was associated with lust, and was a symbol of the sanguine man. | Subjects: | animal; everyday life; interior | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel (French painter and printmaker, 1803-1860) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8834... | Go to resource |
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