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Alexandre Gabriel Decamps

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Alexandre Gabriel Decamps , 1803-60, French genre and historical painter, engraver, and lithographer. First known for his caricatures and illustrations, he turned to painting in thick impasto and strong color. One of his richest sources was the Middle East, which he depicted in vivid detail. His Good Samaritan and Night Patrol at Smyrna are in the Metropolitan Museum. Author not available, DECAMPS, ALEXANDRE GABRIEL. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel
Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel ( b Paris, 3 May 1803; d Fontainebleau...1860). French painter and printmaker. Decamps was one of the first and most successful...sculptors of the time. Subsequently Decamps's reputation faded. His work is well... Read more

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...Visiting the Pesthouse at Jaffa , 1804, Louvre, Paris). Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was among the pioneers in actually visiting exotic...and gory scenes of torture and execution such as Decamps's The Punishment of the Hooks (1837, Wallace Coll... Read more

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	Is it art or monkey business? Public's opinion is canvassed ; ...Yorkshire gallery. The 1839 works by French artist Alexandre Gabriel Decamps have formed part of the collection at Barnsley...Yorkshire gallery. The 1839 works by French artist Alexandre Gabriel Decamps have formed part of the collection at Barnsley... Read more
	Anniversaries ; Births: Edmund Waller, poet, 1606; William Charles Macready, actor and manager, 1793; Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter, 1803; Charles Kensington Salaman, pianist, conductor and composer, 1814; George Mortimer Pullman, industrialist and inventor... Read more
	Notices: Galleries: First run ; ...Included are landscapes from Eugene- Louis Boudin and Jean-Baptiste- Camille Corot, and domestic scenes by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. Until 3 August. Wallace Collection, Manchester Square W1. 020 7563 9500 WORLD PRESS PHOTO Find out who won... Read more
	Painting sends PC brigade bananas. ; ...Monkey's Music Lesson by 19th century French artist Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, is one of a genre of comical monkey paintings popular...yesterday refused to release a photo of the work by Decamps. The Paris-born artist, who died at 57 in 1860, was... Read more
	Great ape-scape 'may be offensive to monkeys' ; ...Barnsley town centre for more than 100 years. Thousands of visitors have gazed at the work, by French artist Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, since it became part of the gallery's permanent collection after it was donated early last century. But now... Read more
	Notices: Galleries - opening this week ; ...paintings. Included are landscapes from Eugene-Louis Boudin and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and domestic scenes by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. Until 3 August. Wallace Collection, Manchester Square W1. 020 7563 9500 Read more
	Nicolas De Crecy. Glacial Period.(Book review) ; ...Jean-Federic Schall's The Comparison, the archaeologists theorize that the culture must have lacked modesty; from Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps's The Monkey Painter, the leader theorizes that the paintings must have been done by very skilled animals... Read more
	Enigmas in Their Own Time Paris Drawings Fair Reveals the Unexpected ; ...Romney's sketches that drawings project a vision differing radically from that of the pictures by the same artist. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860) who often sank into kitsch when indulging in Orientalist subjects, or in huge historical scenes... Read more
	Lisa Tan ; ...painting. Other works in the show tell of potential trips to Amsterdam and Chantilly, home to two pictures by Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, and, of course, to Paris, along with Cambridge, Dublin, and Cleveland, where Delacroix paintings are on view... Read more

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