Post 190 –Gautam Shah
Sunday Feature on Art of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
Charles Edouard Delort (1841-1895) was a French painter. He studied for a while under M. Duhousset, the Professor of Design at the college of Lorient, in Brittany. He came to Paris in 1859 and entered the studio of Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre. Here, with George Pradel, the noted water colourist Delort acquired the colour style. He accompanied Pradel to Egypt in 1862. The scenes of Algerian life had great impact on many paintings. He devoted his career to scenes of the 18th C with a sense of romance. He also found that large-scale compositions on Orientalist themes sell well.
As an illustrator, he worked on the ‘Figaro Illustre’ and the journal ‘Les Lettres et les Arts’, and produced drawings for the works of Froissart, Walter Scott, Xavier de Maistre, Theophile Gauthier and Edmond About.
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