Works In The Fields In Algeria, Oil On Canvas By Gustave Guillaumet (1840 - 1887)

Sheikh on horseback inspecting the work in his fields, people and camel against a mountain background. Algeria. Oil on canvas, dimensions at sight: 18 x 27.2 cm, overall dimensions: 30.5 x 40 cm. Signature G. Guillaumet lower left. Deceased prematurely at the age of 47, Gustave Guillaumet is one of the great French painters of Algeria in the 19th century, present in numerous museums and particularly at the Musée d'Orsay. "Halts, camps, tents or bivouacs, riders, horses or caravans, civilians or soldiers, isolated figures or numerous groups, mountains, bare plains, outskirts of villages or deserts, Guillaumet's attention is tirelessly focused on the inscription of figures human or animal in natural space, between sky and earth, in all weather, at any time of the day" (Marie Gautheron, L'Algérie de Gustave Guillaumet).