The Halt In The Desert By Paul Pascal (1832/39-1903/05)

The Work :

Halt in the desert by Paul Pascal (1839 –1903/05)
Gouache 6.5 x 10

Excellent Condition
Signed and dated 1888 lower right

Perfectly Framed

Sold for 380 Euros


The Artist :

Paulin Bernard Pascal was born in Toulouse on November 21, 1839.
He was the son of Jacques Félix Albin Pascal, a cabinetmaker, and Anne Jaffary.

The painter, who quickly adopted the diminutive Paul Pascal, very rarely signed his works as PB Pascal.
Little is known about this enigmatic artist, born into a family of Toulouse cabinetmakers, trained in Madrid by the painter Antonio Bravo, and who spent his youth in North Africa where he served in the Zouaves.

A decorative painter in Toulouse in the 1870s, he embarked around 1880 on a brilliant Parisian career as a landscape painter, specializing in views of the Orient, which he rendered exclusively in gouache.
His small dormer windows and windows overlooking the shores and deserts of North Africa or Egypt were highly prized and found their way into the bourgeois homes of major cities.

Pascal produced a great many of these picturesque views of a luminous Orient, in the tradition of Delacroix and Fromentin.
He was also interested in the landscapes of Italy, the Pyrenees and the French shores of the Mediterranean or the Southwest.
After traveling around 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.