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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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Listeners · Last.fm

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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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Commons category
Eugène Fromentin
date of birth
1820-00-00
date of death
1876-00-00
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name in native language
Eugène Fromentin
pseudonym
Fromentin-Dupeux, Eugene Samuel Auguste
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Works in European collections

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

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