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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This painting was probably inspired by Lanfant's travels to Africa during the Algerian campaign which took place between 1830 and 1847. He was discharged from the army in 1842 and then started to work as a draughtsman before setting up a studio in Paris. This picture appears to have also been inspired by the orientalist fashion of the nineteenth century, especially with its warm tones and a subject allowing the artist to depict unusual costumes, a detail which sets the scene far away from French soil. Lanfant mostly painted genre scenes and children, but orientalism was so widespread that many artists would have depicted exotic subjects at some point in their career. | Subjects: | marine; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lanfant, François-Louis (French painter, 1814-1892) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8976... | Go to resource |
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