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Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, The Caravan, c.1854

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

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

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

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

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps - Interior of a Turkish Cafe

Alexandre Gabriel DECAMPS - Balkonda (detail)

oil on canvas

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

“Albanian duel” - Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1828

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.

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.

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

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps – Italian Peasant

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source

https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.213