Original engraving "Les Bedouins", engraved by De Bourge after the painting by Horace Vernet shown at the Salon of 1834: a group of Bedouins gathered in the shade of a tree beside the tents of the camp, with a water carrier in the foreground.
Original engraving "Les Bedouins", engraved by De Bourge after the painting by Horace Vernet shown at the Salon of 1834: a group of Bedouins gathered in the shade of a tree beside the tents of the camp, with a water carrier in the foreground.
Horace Vernet (1789-1863) travelled to Algeria and the Near East and was one of the painters who brought the Orientalist subject into fashion in the France of Louis Philippe.
Medium: Copper engraving
Artist / after: Horace Vernet. Salon of 1834
Engraver: De Bourge
Date: About 1834
Source: L'Artiste review
Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.9 in (29.5 x 22.5 cm)
Condition: Foxed paper with spots of damp staining; the left margin with the perforations of the binding.