The Banks of the Nile

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Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) was a French painter who specialised in scenes of life in North Africa. He travelled there several times during his career, storing up a stock of images that he could turn into pictures to satisfy the French taste for oriental subjects. The Banks of the Nile of 1874 was painted five years after he had visited Egypt to witness the opening of the Suez Canal. It is a poetic image of river life: a gentle breeze pushes a felucca along while other small boats ply their trade and Arabs chat on the river bank. Fromentin gave this everyday scene a familiar air by using the techniques of Dutch Golden Age maritime painters such as Willem van de Velde, father and son, who had painted Dutch ships in moments of sunlit calm.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

The Banks of the Nile

Date

1874

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 54 x W 78.7 cm

Accession number

NG3511

Acquisition method

Presented by Roland F. Knoedler to the Tate Gallery, 1920; transferred, 1956

Work type

Painting

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