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Also known as Eugène Fromentin-Dupeux, Eugène Samuel Auguste Fromentin-Dupeux, Eugène Samuel Auguste Fromentin, Eugène-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin, Eugene Samuel Auguste Fromentin-Dupeux, Eugene Fromentin, Samuel Auguste Eugène Fromentin, Eugene Fromentin-Dupeux

French painter (1820-1876)

Person · Open Library

Born
1820
Died
1876
Works
101

Top works

  • Dominik
  • Les maitres d'autrefois, Belgique-Hollande
  • Le paysage charentais dans l'oeuvre d'Eugène Fromentin et de Pierre Loti [pseud.]
  • Dominiḳ
  • Exposition des oeuvres de Eugène Fromentin a l'école nationale des beaux-arts ... mars 1877 ...

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
5

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Quotes

  • ..Africa: it's a magic word that lends itselfs to suppositions and sets amateur explorers to dreaming. I want to try to be 'at home' on this bit of foreign [Arab] soil.
  • The things I haven't seen with my own eyes are for me unknown.
  • Interpreting the Orient through the arts would destroy it, the artistic exploitation might eventually prove as harmful as military or political adventurism.
  • ..that zone of consciousness through which all artists travel mentally, before ever approaching the easel.
  • ..the great Dutch school seemed to think of nothing but painting well [characterised by] the total absence of what today we call 'a subject'.
  • What motive had a Dutch painter in painting a picture? None. And notice that he never asked for one. A peasant with a drunken red nose looks at you with his heavy eye and laughs with open mouth showing his teeth, raising a jug; if it is well painted, it has its value.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Eugène
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
La Rochelle
Place of death
La Rochelle
Occupation
art historian
Languages spoken
French
Native language
French
Field of work
literature
Movement
Orientalism
Image
FromentinEugene.jpg
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Commons category
Eugène Fromentin
date of birth
1820-00-00
date of death
1876-00-00
Commons Creator page
Eugène Fromentin
Commons gallery
Eugène Fromentin
name in native language
Eugène Fromentin
has works in the collection
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
writing language
French
pseudonym
Fromentin-Dupeux, Eugene Samuel Auguste
Sources (6)

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Works in European collections

11 objects attributed to Eugène Fromentin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana