Artwork
Oriental Vignettes
Oriental Vignettes is an ink print by the Romanticist artist Alexandre Gabriel Decamps. It dates from 1829 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
- Inscription
- Inscribed:center left in image: DC; lower left in image: DC; upper right above image: No 1
About this work
Overview
Oriental Vignettes is a lithograph on wove paper created by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps around 1829.
Subject & Meaning
The print is divided into two sections, depicting desert scenes, including a man with a cow and cart, a camel rider, a man with a sword, and a woman carrying a pot with a child.
Technique & Style
Rendered in shades of gray, the image achieves a simple yet elegant effect, characteristic of Decamps' lithographic work.
Context
This work is associated with the Romanticism movement, which often featured exotic and dreamlike subjects.
Own this work as a print
Artist & collection
Artist
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was a French painter noted for his Orientalist works.
Camel and Arabs
A Scene in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
Le Corps de Garde
A Mameluck Resting![Advanced guard & Baggage of the Royal artillery landi[ng] a[t] Alexandria en route for India, by T. B. S.](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/t-b-s--advanced-guard-baggage-of-the-royal-artillery-landi-ng-a-t-a--605f6f4d9d8dfe93-w320.webp)
Advanced guard & Baggage of the Royal artillery landi[ng] a[t] Alexandria en route for India
En dyretæmmer med kamel, aber, bjørne mm.
Egyptian Mare
Un Corps de Garde
Three Oriental Figures (Jacob and Laban?)
On the Road to Santa Fe
The Camel
The Royal Horse Guards crossing the Nile at Handak