Alfred Dehodencq
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Alfred Dehodencq 1822 - 1882 French painter born in Paris. Well known for his vivid oil paintings depicting slices of life in the world around him.
[edit] Life
During his early years , Dehodencq studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under the tutelage of famous French artist Leon Cogniet. Following the French revolution of 1848 he spent five years in Spain where he became acquainted with the works of Spanish painters Diego Velázquez and Francisco Goya which had a strong influence on his approach to painting.
In 1853 he travelled to Morocco where for the following ten years he produced many of his most famous paintings depicting scenes of the world he encountered. While he considered himself to be a 'Last of the Romantics', his work is gemerally categorized in the mid 19th century realists artistic movement.
Dehodencq was the first foreign artist known to have lived in Morocco for an extended number of years. He returned to Paris in 1863. He died in 1882 having committed suicide.
[edit] List of Paintings
- The Farewell of King Boabdil at Granada
- The Morrocan storyteller
- Jewish bride in Morocco
- Execution of a Moroccan Jewess (1860)
- Combat De Novillos, the bull fight
- Los Duques de Montpensier, Sevilla 1853
- Gypsy Dance in the Gardens of the Alcazar before the Pavilion of Charles V 1851
- A Religious Confraternity Processing along the Calle Genova, Seville 1851
