Camille ROGIER (Meynes 1810 Paris 1893)
Lebanese man and women at the foot of a tree
Black pencil, white gouache highlights on brown paper
43,6 x 28,5 cm
Captioned "Cedar of Lebanon", dated "1852" and signature erased in the lower left corner
Slight spotting
Two portraits are attached, one signed and dated "1851
Camille Rogier, having studied in Toulouse, made his debut at the Salon in 1831 as an Orientalist painter. At the same time, he led a literary and artistic group with his friends Théophile Gautier and Gérard de Nerval. Rogier made his first trip to Constantinople in 1840 and was joined by the latter. During his return to France, he made drawings for the magazine l'Illustration and illustrated many writers such as Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo and his friend Arsène Houssaye.
He became director of the Post Office in Beirut in 1848 and remained in Lebanon until 1864. Our drawings testify to the artist's taste for oriental culture and its landscapes, which he was able to study at length through his various trips to the Middle East.
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