Orientalist portrait by Édouard Verschaffelt

Portrait oil on canvas woman with blue ribbon sign e. Verschaffelt. A few cracks. Size of canvas 59x78 cm. Painter known and side. Edouard verschaffelt is a belgian orientalist painter born in ghent, belgium in 1874 and died in algeria in bou saâda in 1955. Edouard verschaffelt was a man deeply attached to algeria. He will produce a painting of the roots, passion and deepening of this algerian reality, so abused by the exotic orientalist. Edouard verschaffelt took academic, colonial orientalism against his feet. A student of the antwerp school of fine arts, he carries with him, from the outset, the indelible traces of flemish painting and the attraction of impressionism.