Orientalist, gouache on paper by Paul Pascal 29 x 20 cm

Orientalist cavaliers on the edge of the oasis, gouache on paper by Paul Pascal, dated 1877. Paulin bernard pascal was born in toulouse on november 21, 1839. The painter, who quickly chose the diminutive of paul pascal, very rarely signed his works with a p.b. Pascal. Little is known about this mysterious artist, from a milieu of toulouse cabinetmakers, trained in madrid by the painter antonio bravo and spent in his youth through north africa where he did his military service in the zouaves. Painter decorator in toulouse in the 1870s, he began around 1880 a brilliant parisian career as a landscape painter, specializing in the views of the orient, which he treated exclusively with gouache. Much appreciated, its small skylights and windows open on the shores and deserts of north africa or egypt, reach the bourgeois interiors of the big cities. Pascal will produce in large numbers these picturesque views of a luminous orient that are in line with delacroix or fromentin; he will also be interested in the landscapes of italy, the pyrenees and the french shores of the mediterranean or the south-west. After running argentina, paul pascal ended his life as an artist in the united states and died ruined and ill in washington at the dawn of the 20th century. Frame dimensions: 53 X 44 cm. Subject dimensions: 29 X 20 cm. For delivery outside metropolitan france, please send me a request for a quote so that you can benefit from the best cost. Item sold in store (viam antiques) that can be removed at any time from the merchant site without notice.

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