Camille ROGIER (Meynes 1810 Paris 1893)
Animated view of Damascus
Black pencil
21 x 31,8 cm
Drawing located at the bottom right
Unidentified collection stamp on the lower left
Drawing folded in four, small tear on the left, small fold on the bottom left, small freckles
Two landscapes and two genre scenes are attached, three of which are located at the bottom left
Camille Rogier, who 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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