Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

(1803–1860) fransk målare

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (France, 1803–1860) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was born in Paris and died in Fontainebleau. The teachers included Étienne Bouhot and Abel de Pujol. Wikidata associates Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps with Romanticism and Orientalism. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour. The students included Louis Godefroy Jadin and Émile Charles Labbé.

The best-known works include ‘Searching for Truffles’, ‘Bauernhof in Fontainebleau’, and ‘Christ on trial’. The works belong mainly to the genre Orientalism. The catalogue has 90 works by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps with free images. The dated works span the years 1801–1893. Works by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps are held by several collections, among them Wallace Collection, Département des peintures du Louvre, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Cleveland Museum of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Charles-Antoine Cambon, Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Camille Roqueplan, Hermann Stilke, and Jacob Abels.

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