Croix De Royat
1835. Lithograph on cream wove paper, 12 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches (322 x 231 mm), margins trimmed. Some scattered light foxing on the verso, handling creases, and adhesive residue along the top sheet edge, and left sheet edge, verso. Recto is clean.
Born in Bordeaux in 1804, Adrien Dauzats is most celebrated for his Orientalist subject matter. His Romantic depictions of Arab life and culture swept France by storm in mid the and late 19th century, specifically his masterpiece landscapes of Cairo, Ancient Egyptian ruins, and the inhabitants of the Nile River Valley. Dauzats was one of the true pioneers of this genre. In 1844 he relocated to the rue Notre-Dame de Lorette, in Paris, and befriended fellow French Romantic master Eugene Delacroix, who became his neighbor and close colleague. The two forged a friendship so profound that Delacroix named Dauzats as one of the executors of his will.
Works by Dauzats may be found in the permanent collections of the Louvre, the Palace of Versailles, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Rijks Museum.
Item number: 527
Price: $300.00
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