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From Athens to Constantinople: ‘The watchman’ by Alphonse Isambert
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 437-443
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Author:
Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Isambert, Alphonse / Gérôme, Jean-Léon / Delaroche, Paul / Gleyre, Charles
dates:
1860-1869
styles:
Néo-Grec / Orientalism
subjects:
French painting / Salons (art exhibitions) / Critical Reception
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Young Greeks forcing cocks to fight, by Jean-Leon Gérôme. 1846. Oil on canvas, 143 by 204 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. The departure of Ulysses, by Alphonse Isambert. 1846. Oil on canvas, 32 by 40.5 cm. (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Scala).
Attributed works:
3. Artists at ‘Le Chalet’, 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, by Gustave Le Gray. Jean-Léon Gérôme is on the far right. Salt-print photograph, 10.9 by 139 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris;   RMN-Grand Palais; photograph Hervé Lewandowski).
Attributed works:
4. The watchman, by Alphonse Isambert. 1867. Oil on board, 51.7 by 40 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
5. Arab greeting, by Alexandre Evariste Fragonard after Godefroy Engelmann. 1819. Lithograph, page 67 by 50.3 cm. (From L.N.P.A. Forbin: Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818, Paris 1819).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of View of Hounkiar-Iskelessi, Echelle du Grande Seigneur, by Antoine Ignace Melling. 1819. Copper engraving, plate size 73.66 by 50.8 cm. (From A.I. Melling, C. Lacretelle, J.D. Barbié de Bocage et al.: Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore (d’après les dessins de Mr Antoine Ignace Melling dessinateur et architecte de la Sultane Hadigé sa soeur), Paris 1819, II, pl.35; Alamy).