TESSLEV

Art blog by Tess L. Welles

[spirit-of-art]

Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, The Caravan, c.1854

[evictedfromdreamland]

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Turkish Merchant Smoking in His Shop, 1844

[enchantedbook]

Macbeth ’s Three Witches by Alexandre - Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860)

[artpoteosis]

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803 – 1860)  The Suicide (1836)

oil on canvas - 40 cm x 56 cm Location: Walters Art Museum “ Here we shall drag them, and through the mournful wood Our bodies will be hung: with every one Fixed on the thornbush of its wounding shade. “ – Inferno, Dante, Canto XIII

[bigspoopygurl]

Gabriel Alexandre Decamps - Cat, Weasel, and Rabbit (1836)

[venicepearl]

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps - Interior of a Turkish Cafe

[simena]

Alexandre Gabriel DECAMPS - Balkonda (detail)

[arinewman7]

The Monkey Painter

by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

1833

oil on canvas

[the-met-art]

The Night Patrol at Smyrna by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, European Paintings

Medium: Oil on canvas

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436116

[nora-e-kelmendit]

“Albanian duel” - Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1828

[books0977]

Self-Portrait (1830-1832). Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860). Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

In Decamps work, the Oriental note - intended to stress the painter’s bohemian status - is not limited to exotic attributes. The decorative eastern gown sets the tone for the whole colour scheme of the painting, filling it - beyond the obvious link with the elementary subject - with a heady sensuousness.

[svenson777]

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps “The Defeat of the Cimbri” Oil on Canvas 1833

Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Historical context:

Cimbrian War: Battle of Vercellae (101 BCE)

The Battle of Vercellae, or Battle of the Raudine Plain, in 101 BCE was the Roman victory of Consul Gaius Marius over the invading Celto-Germanic tribe of the Cimbri near the settlement of Vercellae in the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul.

[lionofchaeronea]

Two Studies of a Seated Arab with a Pipe, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860)

[parappurathu]

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps – Italian Peasant

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Eugene Leroux, after Alexandre Gabriel Decamps - The Suicide, c. 1846.

Versions >> 1 | 2

[charnel-grounds]

“La Mort et le Bûcheron” from Les Fables de La Fontaine

art by Eugène Leroux after Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, c. 1850

“...Death comes, a cure for every cry; Yet we recoil and doubt his skill, And trembling hold our motto still, Rather to suffer than to die...”

source

[cma-prints]

Pavilion at the Edge of a River, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Cleveland Museum of Art: Prints

Medium: lithograph

https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.213