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- Prosper Marilhat (1811 - 1847)
- On the Banks of the Nile
- France
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- Date: c. 1833 - 1840
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on oak panel
- Image size: 30.7 x 45 cm
- Frame size: 62 x 75.5 x 10 cm
- Frame size: 46.5 x 60.5 x 2.5 cm, sub frame
- Inv: P293
- Location: West Gallery II
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- Before moving to Paris and becoming a pupil of Camille Roqueplan, c.1829, Marilhat had already painted his earliest landscapes in his native region of Puy-de-Dôme and the Auvergne. In 1831-33 he visited the Middle East, at first accompanying the naturalist Baron Karl von Hügel. He brought back many studies and established a considerable reputation for himself as an Orientalist painter as well as a portraitist. In his last years he became insane and he died in an asylum. He was a pioneer painter of naturalistic Oriental scenes such as this picture (cf. Marilhat, 'Beni Suef on the Nile', P356).