Galerie Emeric Hahn Oil on canvas and oil on panel - Cimetière hors les murs. stanboul.

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Cemetery outside the walls. Stanboul. H/T 11 .9 x 19.6 cm Antoine LECOMTE DU NO-AY 1842 - 1923 The Journeys of Jules-Jean Antoine LECOMTE DU NO-Y (1842-1923) -Egypt, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Romania, France - were his main source of inspiration, an indispensable step in the development of his paintings: a phase of observation, learning, or everything has its importance: light, colors, places, hours, legends, mythologies, religions, history... The works he brought back were carefully classified, annotated, located, and most often dated, so that time would not alter his? Memories of travel? He was able to find the places his painting needed: the edge of the Mediterranean, mother of so many civilizations and cultures. An inexhaustible mine for this passionate worker, this scholar, who, back in his studio on Boulevard Flandrin, composed his history paintings nourished by this material that makes them so deep and mysterious, despite the brightness of the colors and the sharpness of the line. ?He always brings together these four elements that make the masterpieces: thought, drawing, color, composition, as four elements form the world and are necessary for his life.? (Guy de Montgailhard). LECOMTE OF NO-Y does not paint anecdotal subjects; in this, he is closer to Ingres than to Gérôme, his master. It illustrates Victor Hugo, Theophile Gautier, Persian poems, Aeschylus and the Bible. The Symbolist painting, not to say fantastic that LECOMTE OF NOUY loves, is staged in the places he has walked, brush in hand, painting everything, things seen and sensations experienced: the nights and the pale auroras of Cairo or the fire of the desert in Biskra, a wooden staircase in Venice or a panorama of the same city, a Breton or Persian legend. His paintings of Salon, (where he exhibited regularly from 1863 to 1922): ? The ambush? 1864; ? The prophet Marabout? 1884; ? Saturday at the Jewish Quarter' 1889; ? Sunday in Venice? 1890; ? Portrait of the King and Queen of Romania? 1899; ? Miss Maupin? 1902; ? The Witch? 1904; ? The Peri and the Poet? 1905; ? The last round? 1913, but also studies and landscapes directly related to it. The artist takes us on a journey around the Mediterranean, with its history, its mythologies and its religions. LECOMTE DU NO-Y has been able to explore every detail, which he will use throughout his career. E.h.

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• Country : FRANCE
• Designer : Antoine LECOMTE DU NOÜY
• Year of creation : 1899