"Gustave Lemaitre - Portrait Of A Young Berber"
Gustave Lemaitre (1860-1945)Portrait of a young Berbere (Algeria) - Oil on canvas
Circa 1915
Oil on canvas (original)
Signed on the middle left
Dimensions (Width X Height):
Canvas: 27,5 X 41,5 cm
Frame: 45 X 56 cm
Really nice oriental frame in sculpted wood
The painting is in good and original condition
(no repaint nor cleaning - original canvas)
Chassis with keys
Gustave Lemaitre (1860-1945)
French landscape and Orientalist painter
Biography
Gustave Lemaitre was born on April 26, 1860 in Marseille where he studied Fine Arts before continuing his studies in Paris with Alexandre Cabanel, William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.
He exhibited every year at the Salon des Artistes français from 1882 to 1913.
Gustave Lemaitre left for North Africa and settled in Algiers in 1910 where he exhibited at the Société des Artistes Algériens et Orientalistes until 1921.
He won the Marie Bashkirtseff price.
Gustave Lemaitre died in 1945 in Algiers
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