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1822 Auxerre, France - 1867 Marseille, France. Known for: Oriental, Egyptian and Italian scene painting, drawing, magazine illustration, murals.
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Louis-Amable Crapelet made his debut at the Paris Salon* in 1846. Crapelet produced relatively few paintings, which were generally of an Orientalist* nature.... Read full biography
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Louis-Amable Crapelet made his debut at the Paris Salon* in 1846. Crapelet produced relatively few paintings, which were generally of an Orientalist* nature. After spending some time in Algeria, he went to Egypt between 1852 and 1854, travelling down the Nile... Read full biography
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Louis-Amable Crapelet made his debut at the Paris Salon* in 1846. Crapelet produced relatively few paintings, which were generally of an Orientalist* nature. After spending some time in Algeria, he went to Egypt between 1852 and 1854, travelling down the Nile as far as the Third Cataract. This journey provided him with material for much of his later career. In 1859 he visited Tunis, and his drawings from this journey later served to illustrate an account... Read full biography
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Louis-Amable Crapelet made his debut at the Paris Salon* in 1846. Crapelet produced relatively few paintings, which were generally of an Orientalist* nature. After spending some time in Algeria, he went to Egypt between 1852 and 1854, travelling down the Nile as far as the Third Cataract. This journey provided him with material for much of his later career. In 1859 he visited Tunis, and his drawings from this journey later served to illustrate an account of the voyage for the magazine Le Tour du Monde in 1865. In the same year he exhibited a View of Luxor at the Exposition Universelle* in Paris. Crapelet exhibited mainly views of Egypt at the Salons between 1849 and 1866, as well as the occasional... Read full biography
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Louis-Amable Crapelet made his debut at the Paris Salon* in 1846. Crapelet produced relatively few paintings, which were generally of an Orientalist* nature. After spending some time in Algeria, he went to Egypt between 1852 and 1854, travelling down the Nile as far as the Third Cataract. This journey provided him with material for much of his later career. In 1859 he visited Tunis, and his drawings from this journey later served to illustrate an account of the voyage for the magazine Le Tour du Monde in 1865. In the same year he exhibited a View of Luxor at the Exposition Universelle* in Paris. Crapelet exhibited mainly views of Egypt at the Salons between 1849 and 1866, as well as the occasional Italian and Provençal landscape. Towards the end of his career he also worked on the mural decoration of theatres and other buildi... Read full biography
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A pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Louis-Amable Crapelet made his debut at the Paris Salon* in 1846. Crapelet produced relatively few paintings, which were generally of an Orientalist* nature.
After spending some time in Algeria, he went to Egypt between 1852 and 1854, travelling down the Nile as far as the Third Cataract. This journey provided him with material for much of his later career. In 1859 he visited Tunis, and his drawings from this journey later served to illustrate an account of the voyage for the magazine Le Tour du Monde in 1865.
In the same year he exhibited a View of Luxor at the Exposition Universelle* in Paris. Crapelet exhibited mainly views of Egypt at the Salons between 1849 and 1866, as well as the occasional Italian and Provençal landscape. Towards the end of his career he also worked on the mural decoration of theatres and other buildings in Lyon and Marseilles.
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Website of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2020
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